Subject: bug#77897: closed (Re: bug#77897: "make clean" should do a "rm -rf .deps")

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:28:02 +0000

Your bug report

#77897: "make clean" should do a "rm -rf .deps"

which was filed against the automake package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#77897: "make clean" should do a "rm -rf .deps"
From: Karl Berry <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:27:21 -0600
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Subject: "make clean" should do a "rm -rf.deps"
From: Sam Varshavchik <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:56:49 -0400
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.deps/filename gets created during building with --enable-dependency- 
tracking and should get removed by make clean. But it does not. For example:

main.h:

int helloworld();

main.c:

#include <main.h>

int helloworld()
{
    return 0;
}

int main()
{
    helloworld();
}

Set up a minimal Makefile.am and configure.ac to build this. Building this  
will create .deps/<filename> with a:

main.o: main.h main.c

Now: 1) 'rm -f main.h"  2) Remove the #include

Then try to build this:

make clean
make

Will fail because that dependency exists and make does not know how to build  
main.h. I have to rm -rf .deps myself.

automake 1.16.5