[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#646840: fails to build from source twice in a row

[Yavor Doganov]

reassign 646840 gnustep-make 2.6.1-1
retitle 646840 `gnustep-tests --clean' does not delete all core files
affects 646840 src:gnustep-base
tags 646840 = confirmed
thanks

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2011-11-03 at 21:05 +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > As I can't reproduce, I'd appreciate if you investigate why they
> > end up (apparently) `core.$program.$pid'.
> 
> I have my kernel configured to do that.  (See core(5) man page if you
> are interested.)

Thanks.

> so gnustep upstream should not assume that just deleting "core" is
> sufficient.

Indeed.

> Here is what an Autoconf-generated configure script does:
> 
> rm -f core *.core core.conftest.*

But this command will not delete your core files.  I guess adding
core.* will do that.  Also, core.conftest.* is reduntant in our case
as these are the core files produced by the failed autoconf tests.

Will fix, thanks for the pointers.