make clean fails if object files are in subdirectory

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compilation does not fail. it says it's (Ignored), so
dev-c++ displays it, but the compilation is actually
successful. Please confirm

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Dear specu,
No the compilation stops.
Please note the no files have been changed but
the "rebuild all" should push for a complete re-compilation
of everything.

If I change one source file (.c) only the "rebuild all"
compiles the new file
only and send the warning, building the exe.

I am a little bit confused by the new behaviour.
I have to admit that the previous behaviour was perfect and
I cannot understand the reason for changing it. It worked
perfectly.

Thank you for the attention

Max

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the reason for change is that you had to have rm which is
not native to windows. previously we included it as part of
binutils, there were also ideas to make a separate devpaks
out of it etc etc.

could you please include a zip of the project here?

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Dear Specu

The problem appears using all my projects. It seems
impossible to attach
a file in the current followup. I opened another bug report
with the same
subject + attach in which I attached tha zip file.

I think it is related to the configuration. I am used to put all
my objects and executables in the "object" directory. After
some trials
I am pretty sure that this configuration can show the bug.

I you put all the objects and the executable in the main dir
(the dir in which
the .dev exist) the problem disappers.

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I think that the reason that pushed this change is academic.
OK rm is
not a windows facility. But also devcpp.exe is not a windows
facility.

Simply add (in a proper location) rm in the devc++
distribution (like devcpp.exe).

And everybody are happy :-)))

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Regards

Max

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I bet the problem is simpler.
while rm accepts
rm objects/somefile.o
del needs backslash
del objects\somefile.o
and fails with forward slash.
you probably can see that in your compile log.

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attaching the example

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so if you look at compiler log:

--
[...]
Executing make clean
del /f/q object/main.o object/A.o object/B.o
object/AAAAAAAAAA.o object/BBBBBBBBBBBBB.o
object/DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.o object/EEEEEEEEEE.o
object/FFFFFFFFF.o object/GGGGGGG.o object/HHHHHHHH.o
object/example.exe

Invalid switch - "main.o".

make.exe: [clean] Error 1 (ignored)

make.exe: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Execution terminated

that means that in fact make did not fail. simply del didn't
delete the binaries and make didn't have anything to do, so
it terminated with success.

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Dear Specu

OK .. but now? :-)))
The makefile is automatically generated by devcpp. I think
that if devcpp is
going to use del, the makefile generator should be changed
to use backslashes.

Anyway thank you very much for your attention.

Regards

Max

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I rolled back to using rm.
http://www.castlesofpoland.com/dev-cpp/devcpp.exe
del causes all kinds of problems