Re: makefile.

[Satish Balay <balay@mcs.anl.gov>]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, billy@dem.uminho.pt wrote:

> 
> I am new to PETSc, so I don't really know how it works.
> 
> I added this line to my makefile:
> 
> include $(PETSC_DIR)/bmake/common/base
> 
> but I had a target named 'clean' defined. Now, when I run my makefile it says:
> 
> ... ignoring old commands for target 'clean'
> 
> Does PETSc also define a target named 'clean'? If yes, what does it do?

Yes - it also defines a target clean. Its in bmake/common/rules. You
can check it to see what all default files it deletes.

To get additional files to be deleted by this default target - specify
the following in the user makefile

CLEANFILES = filenames

Satish