Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:58:47PM -0600, Mark Johnson wrote:
>
>> I wish djb had included a 'clean' target.
>
> It's spelled
>
>  rm -f `cat TARGETS`
>
> There is little point in having a Makefile target (aside from
> convention) since it would have no dependencies.
>
> -Peff

"convention" is not nothing.  There seems to be this presumption that
the time/cost/effort in learning things like, "in djb builds, 'make
clean' is spelled 'rm -f `cat TARGETS`'" is zero.  This presumption is
false.

Here's Peff's forumla, in Makefile format.  Something about tabs.

   clean:
          rm -f `cat TARGETS`