clean and realclean?

[Leont]

Should we specify the clean and realclean actions? They are useful, and some packagers (including debian) are (weakly?) depending on them. They shouldn't be too hard to define either.

[karenetheridge]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 04:43:03AM -0700, Leon Timmermans wrote:

Should we specify the clean and realclean actions. They are useful, and some packagers (including debian) are (weakly?) depending on them. They shouldn't be too hard to define either.

Definitely yes for 'clean' - it's a pretty standard make target.

'realclean' is less so, but if it would add value, why not? (what exactly
does 'realclean' do, that 'clean' doesn't? is this behaviour consistent
between EUMM and MB?)

[Leont]

'realclean' is less so, but if it would add value, why not? (what exactly does 'realclean' do, that 'clean' doesn't? is this behaviour consistent between EUMM and MB?)

clean removes all files created in the build phases (and later). realclean also deletes files from the configuration phase such as MYMETA.* and the Build script.

[dagolden]

+1 for both

[Leont]

Added in dc4ac67. Hope I didn't miss anything obvious.