Re: make clean=depends to clean also test-deps

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 07:36:31PM +0000, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before I dig into this, would it be okay, if make clean=depends also
> cleaned up test dependencies? I often use clean-depends to clean up all
> dependencies, but that leaves behind ports in test dependencies.
>
> Would it be okay to include test deps during make clean-depends?

That would be okay but this will be complicated.

Specifically, because test-depends are somewhat outside of the normal
depends, and clean=depends uses all-dir-depends, which does not have
test-depends.

and all-dir-depends shouldn't get test depends because of the way it's
generally used.

So this means more variables and more targets...

The other issue is: what semantics.
make clean=depends will clean build/run depends recursively

if you include test-depends, you might clean up a lot of things...
specifically because test-depends are *outside* the normal build.

So, what recursive semantics do you want for test depends ?... probably none ?