[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Jaap,

Jaap Keuter schrieb:
> Hello list,
>
> I found that if you build the target clean (on a Win32 lpatform), all
> final compilation products are removed from the tree. Only the $(VERSION)
> directory, containing all the plugins remains, which is not correct IMHO.
> This is a result from clean not depending on clean_deps.
> This same issue affects the clean target in the top Makefile, which
> doesn't clean out the stuff from building the target install-deps.
>
> My sugestion is to add clean_deps as a dependancy to clean in the top
> Makefile.nmake


When I introduced install-deps and clean_deps target, I thought about adding 
clean_deps as a dependency to one of the clean targets but I wasn't sure about 
to which one. the "clean" target removes all standard compilation products, 
while "distclean" also removes pre-built products from released source tarballs.
I'm not so sure about the difference between "maintainer-clean" and "distclean".

"clean_deps" doesn't remove any build products, it just removes all files copied 
by "install-deps". As "install-deps" isn't part of the standard build process 
and as it isn't necessary to call "clear_deps" to get a clean build, I decided 
to keep it as an extra clean target. Perhaps "clean_deps" should be called by 
"maintainer-clean" or by "distclean", but IMO it shouldn't be called by the 
"clean" target. I would prefer to have it as part of "maintainer-clean".

Regards,
Lars