In Distutils-0.9.2 the clean command does not remove the build_scripts dir. The patch is fixing this. Bastian --- clean.py Sat Aug 5 03:31:54 2000 +++ /usr/local/src/Distutils-0.9.2/distutils/command/clean.py Mon Sep 11 11:37:02 2000 @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ "build directory for all modules (default: 'build.build-lib')"), ('build-temp=', 't', "temporary build directory (default: 'build.build-temp')"), + ('build-scripts=', None, + "build directory for scripts (default: 'build.build-scripts')"), ('bdist-base=', None, "temporary directory for built distributions"), ('all', 'a', @@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ self.build_base = None self.build_lib = None self.build_temp = None + self.build_scripts = None self.bdist_base = None self.all = None @@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ self.set_undefined_options('build', ('build_base', 'build_base'), ('build_lib', 'build_lib'), + ('build_scripts', 'build_scripts'), ('build_temp', 'build_temp')) self.set_undefined_options('bdist', ('bdist_base', 'bdist_base')) @@ -50,27 +54,16 @@ self.warn ("'%s' does not exist -- can't clean it" % self.build_temp) - - - if self.all: - # remove the module build directory (unless already gone) - if os.path.exists (self.build_lib): - remove_tree (self.build_lib, self.verbose, self.dry_run) - else: - self.warn ("'%s' does not exist -- can't clean it" % - self.build_lib) - - # remove the temporary directory used for creating built - # distributions (default "build/bdist") -- eg. type of - # built distribution will have its own subdirectory under - # "build/bdist", but they'll be taken care of by - # 'remove_tree()'. - if os.path.exists (self.bdist_base): - remove_tree (self.bdist_base, self.verbose, self.dry_run) - else: - self.warn ("'%s' does not exist -- can't clean it" % - self.bdist_base) + # remove build directories + for directory in (self.build_lib, + self.bdist_base, + self.build_scripts): + if os.path.exists (directory): + remove_tree (directory, self.verbose, self.dry_run) + else: + self.warn ("'%s' does not exist -- can't clean it" % + directory) # just for the heck of it, try to remove the base build directory: # we might have emptied it right now, but if not we don't care