Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 16:32 -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > Rainer suggested that it would be good for "make clobber" to get the
> > tree as close to a pristine condition as possible, which argues for
> > deleting directories.  So, for example, his patch introduces a
> > CLOBBERDIRS variable to go along with CLOBBERFILES.
> 
> Does this proposed change use rmdir or rm -rf to delete elements of
> CLOBBERDIRS?

AFAIK it would be nice to get both CLOBBERDIRS which runs after
CLOBBERFILES and a CLEANDIRS variable which runs after CLEANFILES, both
implemented via @rmdir $(xxxDIRS) to get warnings when non-empty
directories remain.

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Bye,
Roland

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