Bugs item #3029517, was opened at 2010-07-14 09:09
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Category: compile or build problem
Group: new feature request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Christopher Hotchkiss (chotchki)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: The base Makefile does not have a clean target

Initial Comment:
I am currently integrating a source build of curl into a continuous integration system and I just noticed that curl does not support "make clean" until after the ./configure step. Could this be added? Otherwise to clean up the build we will have to run an extra ./configure.

OS: Solaris 10 64bit - sparc
Curl: 7.21.0

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>Comment By: Christopher Hotchkiss (chotchki)
Date: 2010-07-14 10:10

Message:
Clean up any existing ./configure and objects. I admit it makes zero sense
for one time builds.

As a process example if we do:
- svn update
- ./configure
- make
- make clean
and the make dies for whatever reason (insert random horrible solaris
problem). We have to do an svn revert to reset everything.

However if we can do a:
- svn update
- make clean
- ./configure
- make
we always know that we have a fresh working directory every time we run.

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Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2010-07-14 09:58

Message:
but before configure and make have been issued, what exactly would make
clean do?

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Received on 2010-07-14