From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8879 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2010 11:12:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 8748 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2010 11:12:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:12:11 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1GBBvwv015094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:11:58 -0500 Received: from hase.home (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1GBBsH9012012; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:11:55 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Nick Clifton Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Remove config.cache files when reconfiguring at top level References: <4B796E1D.7000104@redhat.com> <4B7A6E32.6070307__49868.1737961762$1266314832$gmane$org@redhat.com> <4B7A7B9E.4050606@redhat.com> X-Yow: Please come home with me... I have Tylenol!! Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4B7A7B9E.4050606@redhat.com> (Nick Clifton's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:03:58 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2010-02/txt/msg00382.txt.bz2 Nick Clifton writes: > 4. User runs make distclean. > There are no Makefiles present in the sub-directories so > the config.cache files are left intact. So clean them here. That's the only correct place to do it. Only distclean is allowed to remove configuration-recording files. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@redhat.com GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different."