Intrusive Makefile for d-programming-language.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/15/12 9:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/15/12 7:09 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> I'm not particularly well versed in Makefile ethics, but this caught me
>> by surprise.
>>
>> Suppose I clone d-programming-language.org into my home directory (as I
>> did), do some work, then later on run make clean.
>>
>> git clone https://.../d-programming-language.org.git
>> cd d-programming-language.org
>> .... do stuff ...
>> make -fposix.mak clean
>>
>>
>> Here's what clean does:
>>
>> rm -rf ../web ../dmd.2.056 2.056.ddoc
>> rm -rf ../druntime.2.056 ../phobos.2.056
>>
>>
>> If I had a web dir in my home directory (not exactly uncommon), it would
>> have been deleted without warning. Luckily, I didn't. I now have it
>> cloned into a separate dir where it can do no harm.
>>
>> Is it normal for Makefiles to be so intrusive? IMO, Makefiles shouldn't
>> be deleting anything outside their own directory.
>
> I'll fix that.
>
> Andrei

Fixed: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/commit/30545e3ada4bafbed6e246c0b82b0442912955d1


Andrei