makeppclean -- Stand-alone cleanup script for makepp
makeppclean [ -b ] [ -l ] [ -R ] [ -r ] [ -v ] [ path ... ]
mppc [ -b ] [ -l ] [ -R ] [ -r ] [ -v ] [ path ... ]
Makeppclean efficiently removes files that were knowingly generated through makepp. For each path, if path is not a directory and was known to be generated by makepp by virtue of having a build info file with a matching signature, then remove path and its build info file; and if path is a directory, do the same for every file in path, and then remove the build info directory below path. path defaults to ".".
The traditional approach to removing generated files is to create a clean target in your makefiles whose action is to remove all of the targets.
This approach has some fundamental limitations:
Provided that your intention is to remove all the generated files without regard for which makefile (if any) currently generates them, then these limitations are avoided by using makeppclean.
Read the file and parse it as possibly quoted options on one or several lines.
Leave the build info directory below each named directory.
Remove only links or files from a build cache.
Remove only links pointing to a repository.
Descend each named directory recursively. Symbolic links are not followed.
Enable verbose output to STDERR.
Makeppclean looks at the following environment variable:
Any flags in this environment variable are interpreted as command line options before any explicit options. Quotes are interpreted like in makefiles.
Anders Johnson <anders@ieee.org>
