A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-July/127145.html below:

[Python-Dev] End of the mystery "@README.txt Mercurial bug"

[Python-Dev] End of the mystery "@README.txt Mercurial bug"R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Jul 1 13:19:12 CEST 2013
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:33:38 +0200, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 26.06.2013 16:24, schrieb Victor Stinner:
> > 2013/6/26 Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:
> >> I think that's exactly what's happening.
> >>
> >> From the bug report:
> >>
> >>         find $(srcdir) '(' -name '*.fdc' -o -name '*~' \
> >>                            -o -name '[@,#]*' -o -name '*.old' \
> >>                            -o -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' \
> >>                            -o -name '*.bak' ')' \
> >>                            -exec rm -f {} ';'
> >>
> >> Will find files beginning with '@' inside subdirectories of $(srcdir)/.hg.
> > 
> > In my opinion, make distclean should only remove files generated by
> > configure and a build. It should not remove random files.
> > 
> > *~, .orig, .rej, .back should be kept. They are not generated by
> > configure nor make.
> 
> I think you want "make clean" then.

That's a good point.  If the find were dropped, the target would have to
be renamed.  "make configureclean", maybe.  But I think it is easier and
less confusing just to leave things as they will be after Eric applies
the fix proposed in http://bugs.python.org/issue18312.

--David
More information about the Python-Dev mailing list

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4