Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 5 Oct 2012 22:57:40 -0500

Hi Ralph,

On 2012-10-05 Ralph Lange wrote:
> I suggest we add a bunch of variables named ...CLEAN, that users can set
> to add files that they wish to be cleaned.
> Keep them separate for the different cleans (clean vs. realclean etc.).

Actually Janet already did that, but with just one variable called CLEANS.  
Applications can handle this in a backwards-compatible manner like this:

CLEANS += <list of files to be cleaned>

ifndef BASE_3_15
clean::
	$(RM) $(CLEANS)
endif

I have just added the above to the Release Notes on the 3.15 branch since we 
don't seem to have documented the change yet.  Note that the above rule is not 
compatible with the 3.13 build system, IIRC you would need to use a single-
colon rule there instead (student exercise).

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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