[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Lars Roland schrieb:
> 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".
correcting myself now. as a comment in the main makefile sais:
# "distclean" removes all files not part of the distribution.
# It does not remove generated files that are part of the distribution.

# Make "maintainer-clean" only if you would like to remove ALL generated
# files.
# Be sure to have python and perl installed to regenerate them.

Applying this definition, "clean_deps" shouldn't be called by these clean 
targets, as it doesn't remove any generated files. It s more like "clean_setup" 
which removes files ethereal depends on. While "clean_setup" removes files 
needed to compile Ethereal, "clean_deps" removes files needed to run Ethereal.

Best regards,
Lars