Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] signals patch for review

[Axel S. <A....@ke...>]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:40 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > I think "make clean" should wipe the dependencies. Updating and
> > rebuilding is too fragile otherwise.
> 
> I agree.

I tried to do it, and I've been there before. It can't be done since
automake chokes on GNU make conditionals (which should be passed on to
GNU make an not evaluated). I've added a lengthy comment to Makefile.am
to prevent me from going through this loop of insight again (I have been
there before).

> > Moreover, "make clean" should not rebuild the include files.
> 
> I don't think I follow. What include files?

Sorry I meant the dependency files which we .include . I.e. we shouldn't
slurp in (and hence rebuild) the dependency files if the target contains
the word "clean".

Both things are interwoven. We clean dependencies on "make distclean" so
we can say "make clean" several times in a row without rebuilding the
dependencies. If we could write GNU conditionals in automake the
ifeq...endif statements around -include would work, but automake chokes
on them and I can't see a workaround that works. So it all stays as it
is.

Axel.