Re: a few remaining issues...

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 10, 2007, 13:56 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0701100556h1a1338d1q7c6ee99eaad60ab5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701101442520.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 1/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> > > I just sent out a patch in my mail "[PATCH] Makefile: add
> > > clean-obsolete-scripts target" which should help.
> >
> > Well, you also have to give people at least notice _when_ the
> > target should be called.
>
> Okay. Fair enough. So maybe this is the wrong approach: maybe the "all"
> target should look for _all_ executables if there is a script of the same
> name, and in that case remove it; and the "install" target should do the
> same in the gitexecdir?

...but unless they're in the index and the build directory is a git repo. It's going to far. I suggest just giving a word of warning on cygwin at at the end of build. It is the only platform broken in such a stupid way.