Re: clean.pl on Windows fails to remove flex output

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: clean.pl on Windows fails to remove flex output
Date: 2011-07-02 16:03:23
Message-ID: 13359.1309622603@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 17:51, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>> I've noticed while testing the VC 2010 patches that clean.pl in
>> src/tools/msvc doesn't remove files generated by flex.

> clean.pl? I don't even have that file, I only have clean.bat...

> And if you're talking about that one, have you tried "clean dist"
> which is what should correspond to make distclean, and remove those
> files?

Huh? "make distclean" *doesn't* remove such files --- if it did,
they'd not get into the tarballs. What Craig needs is the equivalent of
"make maintainer-clean". Right offhand it looks like clean.bat is
a bit confused as to which of those behaviors it's implementing.

regards, tom lane

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