[augeas-devel] [PATCH] distclean-local: Do not clobber build/aux

[Jim Meyering]

David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
...
> -	-rm -rf $(top_builddir)/build
> +	-find $(top_builddir)/build/* -maxdepth 0 -not -name aux | xargs rm -rf

Hi David,

Recommended practice for "clean"-style rules is to remove only those
files that other rules may create.  Then if a user leaves a
differently-named file in a build directory, there's no chance
that a "make *clean" rule will destroy his misplaced file.

Also, find's -maxdepth and -not predicates are not portable.