[Zope-Coders] CVS: Zope - Makefile:1.4 stupid_clean:NONE

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Florent Guillaume writes:
 > I still am a bit concerned that this will fail on, for instance, MacOSX,
 > where directory names often contain spaces.
 > 
 > Unfortunately the correct way to do it, by using find -print0 and
 > xargs -0, is known to not work on some plateforms, for instance
 > Solaris (I'm told).

Steve Alexander writes:
 > find . -name "*.o" -exec rm -f {} \;

This works for me as well; the -f can be removed as well since it's
only there in case find doesn't locate any matching files.  I've
checked in a change that uses this.

Matt Behrens writes:
 > Or, given the guaranteed existence of a working Python, you could
 > write a python script that walks and unlinks.

That's another possibility, certainly.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
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