GNU bug report logs - #6736
Windows: make maintainer-clean does not restore fully clean bzr tree

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Message #8 received at 6736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Christoph <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 6736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6736: Windows: make maintainer-clean does not restore fully
	clean bzr tree
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:16:00 +0800

Christoph <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> The bin/ directory still contained the following files: cmdproxy.exe
> The site-lisp/ directory contained: subdirs.el
>
> `make realclean' deletes ../bin eventually. Shouldn't
> maintainer-clean' do the same if it claims to restore the fresh tree
> checkout?

I'm not sure.

Anything in ../bin is put there by "make install". I'm pretty sure make
maintainer-clean doesn't uninstall installed executables on other platforms
either, but then those platforms will also have installed copies of
other things that maintainer-clean does delete. Also if cmdproxy.exe is
the only file left in ../bin, then that seems more like a buggy
oversight than deliberately leaving the installed files alone.

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