From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Mon Dec 10 09:42:29 2012
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:42:29 +0100
Subject: [Rd] small issue with over-zealous clean.
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> --- On Sun, 9/12/12, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

> On 9 December 2012 at 18:17, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> | Noticed a problem for a while - tests/testit.Rd,
> tests/ver20.Rd are removed on "make clean" unintentionally.
> | 
> | This seems to come from a change in tests/Makefile.in, which adds the line:
> |? ? - at rm -f *.tar.gz *.Rd back in May 2012.
> | 
> | -----------
> | commit c4d70254e7b7f9d7ed17faecfb3097195d852ddc
> | Author: ripley <ripley at 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41>
> | Date:???Sun May 27 09:04:41 2012 +0000
> | 
> |? ???fix some issues seen by examining no-segfaults.Rout
> |? ???

[..... dropped
 ..... embarrassing / amusing distraction on svn/git ..... 
 ..... started by the OP, not by Dirk !
]

> That said ..a small bug was introduced back in May  .....

Yes, you are right.
BTW: The reason that nobody (from R core, probably not many
people otherwise) has found/mentioned this bug before is not the
use of svn, but the fact that it is much more convenient (and
hence somewhat recommended) to build R outside of its source
directory, and in that case the two *.Rd files that belong to
./tests/ are not removed (from the *build* directory's ./tests/)

Martin



[Rd] small issue with over-zealous clean.
Martin Maechler