[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Jaap Keuter schrieb:
> On Sat, 28 May 2005, Lars Roland wrote:
>
>
> > Lars Roland schrieb:
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Well, the thing is that a 'nmake -f Makefile.nmake all' does a partial
> install to generate documentation (see doc/Makefile.nmake target
> ethereal-filter.pod). This leaves the plugins/$(VERSION) directory and two
> DLLs (wiretap and libethereal) behind. Apart from that 'nmake -f
> Makefile.nmake clean' is fairly well balanced against target 'all'.

You are right. we should add those generated files to clean target. But 
clean_deps should stay a seperate target as the opposite to install_deps.

I will do that later on today.

Best regards,

Lars Roland