Bug 690871

Summary:	"make distclean" doesn't
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Component:	Build Process	Assignee:	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	master
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---

Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2009-10-31 19:12:13 UTC

The command "make distclean" does not remove the debugobj, sobin, and soobj
directories (it removes all the files in those directories, this suggests that
leaving the directories is unintended).

Comment 1 Hin-Tak Leung 2010-05-02 03:12:58 UTC

Grabbing a Ralph's bugs.

Comment 2 Hin-Tak Leung 2010-06-29 04:13:37 UTC

commit r11447 adds a few rmdir's to various make *clean targets to try to remove created *obj/*bin directories, after cleaning them out. Tt does not do unsafe recursive delete, nor remove non-empty directories with left-over user files. 

There are some harmless but unsighty "error ignored" messages from trying to remove directories when they don't exist, or haven't been created.