I would agree. I don't expect "make" to touch anything outside of the local sandbox... As for tying it to install/uninstall... I would lean towards not using those targets, or at least not running them when running the top level targets of the same name. On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:20 PM, Josh Hoblitt via RT wrote: >> [coke - Sat Jun 11 19:02:40 2005]: >> >> It would appear that the editor/Makefile is not removed during a >> realclean, nor is editor/ made clean when parrot is. >> >> > > Since the 'clean' target in editor/Makefile modifies files in $ > (HOME) do > we really want to invoke that action when 'make clean' is run in the > root sourcedir? > > Isn't using make 'all/clean' to modify files outside the builddir > wrong? > Shouldn't that action be wired to install/uninstall? > > >