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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:42:03 +0200
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Hi Sam, I found out what was triggering the problem: symbolic links.
The setup was like this:

directory A contains Makefile, source code etc.
B is a symbolic link to A.
If I change directory into A, then "make clean" works fine.
If I change directory into B, then "make clean" only cleans .tmp_versions.

Strange but true...

All the best,

Duncan.