From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19028 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2006 15:27:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 19020 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Dec 2006 15:27:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:26:59 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4FB48CE84; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:26:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21116-01-8; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:26:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from takamaka.act-europe.fr (AStDenis-105-1-28-173.w81-248.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.248.254.173]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B3A48CE7D; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:26:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B473D34C099; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:27:43 +0400 (RET) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:27:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite/ada] re-implement make clean & distclean Message-ID: <20061231152743.GC3428@adacore.com> References: <20061231100755.GQ3640@adacore.com> <200612311312.kBVDCA3B000981@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20061231143237.GA3428@adacore.com> <20061231151853.GD16449@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061231151853.GD16449@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-12/txt/msg00409.txt.bz2 > Except that, like Mark implies, I tend to keep my notes in my working > directory. If I'm debugging a bunch of testcases and I needed to keep > notes about what was going on, I'd be quite surprised if make clean > deleted my notes! Hum, I hadn't thought about that. I keep my own notes in one central directory - mostly to avoid losing them more than anything, it's hard to keep track of what is in my hard drive sometimes... I don't know how else to solve our issue. Maintaining a list of files to delete is a royal pain :-(. > I don't object too strongly, though, if others like this approach. > I wouldn't put them in that directory anyway, just in gdb/testsuite/. Fortunately, I only suggest this for gdb.ada, so very few people would be impacted. Perhaps the lack of consistency is a bad thing? -- Joel