dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean, or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/dh_auto_test b/dh_auto_test
index 74a80e8c..cf6e58a2 100755
--- a/dh_auto_test
+++ b/dh_auto_test
@@ -42,11 +42,16 @@ or override the any standard parameters that dh_auto_test passes.
 init();
 
 if (-e "Makefile" || -e "makefile" || -e "GNUmakefile") {
+	$ENV{MAKE}="make" unless exists $ENV{MAKE};
 	foreach my $target (qw{test check}) {
-		my $ret=system("make --question $target >/dev/null 2>&1");
-		if ($ret == 0) {
-			doit(exists $ENV{MAKE} ? $ENV{MAKE} : "make",
-				$target, @{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
+		# Make --question returns false if the target is
+		# up-to-date. But we still want to run the target in this
+		# case. So ceck if a target exists by seeing if make outputs
+		# "Making target".
+		my $ret=`LANG=C $ENV{MAKE} --question $target 2>/dev/null`;
+		chomp $ret;
+		if ($ret =~ /^Making \Q$target\E/m) {
+			doit($ENV{MAKE}, $target, @{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
 			last;
 		}
 	}