Re: suggestion: clean-local target

Scott Henry Harrison wrote:

> >> Suggestion for a target is "clean-local" with similar
> >> behavior of execution to install-local and uninstall-local. 
> > 
> > You mean that "clean" would do its usual thing and then invoke
> > "clean-local" additionally?
> 
> Yes. 
> 
> > You could also add items to $CLEANDIRS and $CLEANFILES.  Do you need
> > more than that?
> 
> (Oops... I need to RTFM. :| !  ) 
> 
> CLEANDIRS would work fine for my purposes. 

I can't blame you that you didn't know about these variables.  There
should be a section in the docs about cleaning up...

> Also, a (not-too-important) question, is there any way to intersperse
> comments and/or conditions with each directory as it is cleaned? 
> 
> For example: 
> 
> An example comment,
> comment = "Cleaning compiled java classes...." 
> 
> An example condition,
> "only clean if all files in a directory have a .class suffix" 
> 
> This is admittedly a bit of a stretch to justify something else than
> CLEANDIRS and CLEANFILES, so I would withdraw my original
> clean-local suggestion. 

I still think it's a good idea to add clean-local, because cleaning up
may involve more than deleting files and directories.  Also, it allows
splitting the task up in pieces:

	clean-local:  clean-this clean-that
		:print Finished cleaning up.

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