[Ecls-list] Current HEAD hangs during compilation

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll writes:

> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>
> > In that case 'make clean' should just wipe out the 'build' directory.
> > Or just remove the directory :-)
> > (The more we ask the user, the more we insert uncomfortable barriers.)
>
> Well, then we will get reports from people complaining that we removed
> their build directory without asking :-) More seriously, I think this
> might be a problem if somebody builds ECL out of place and we decide
> just to clean up the whole directory without asking.

An alternative would be to rename the old build directory to
build-`date`, or something like that.

Though I still agree with Gabriel that from other software packages I'm
used that "make clean; make" means "build completely from fresh." So I
do not see a problem removing the build/ directory.

  -T.