From jmhodges at gmail.com  Mon May 21 02:45:21 2007
From: jmhodges at gmail.com (Jeff Hodges)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:45:21 -0400
Subject: [Mkrf-users] setup_clean and hyphens in filenames
Message-ID: <2c83f52c0705202345w16248506s41931695ff92aeca@mail.gmail.com>

Hey, could someone explain the reasoning behind setup_clean always
including 'lib/*-*' files into CLEAN?

I've turned Yoshida Masato's expat bindings into a gem for uploading
to rubyforge (yes, with his permission) but every time I `rake clean`
it deletes the lib/xmltreebuilder-ja.rb and lib/xmlencoding-ja.rb
files.  IMHO, this is a bad thing.

Any input would be great. Thanks.
-- 
Jeff

From hoanga at alum.rpi.edu  Wed May 23 09:12:35 2007
From: hoanga at alum.rpi.edu (Alain Hoang)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:12:35 +0900
Subject: [Mkrf-users] setup_clean and hyphens in filenames
In-Reply-To: <2c83f52c0705202345w16248506s41931695ff92aeca@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2c83f52c0705202345w16248506s41931695ff92aeca@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <46543DC3.8010103@alum.rpi.edu>

Hi Jeff,

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:45:21AM -0400, Jeff Hodges wrote:
 > Hey, could someone explain the reasoning behind setup_clean always
 > including 'lib/*-*' files into CLEAN?

I've gone through the svn logs and I'm afraid there's not much 
explanation on the exact reason for why files with a dash are deleted.

 >
 > I've turned Yoshida Masato's expat bindings into a gem for uploading
 > to rubyforge (yes, with his permission) but every time I `rake clean`
 > it deletes the lib/xmltreebuilder-ja.rb and lib/xmlencoding-ja.rb
 > files.  IMHO, this is a bad thing.

If this is the case, the glob expression is definitely too agressive.  I 
can tweak it to be a little more conservative in trying to delete files. 
  Perhaps files ending in '*-*so*' might be a better glob than what is 
in there now.

A hack you can do now is to add a CLEAN.exclude("*-*") in your Rakefile 
and see if that can override what setup_clean is doing.


Cheers,
Alain