mesonbuild/meson

`ninja clean` does not remove meson-dist directory

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#3,789 opened on Jun 25, 2018

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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. ninja dist
  2. ninja clean

Expected results: All generated files should be removed.

Actual results:

[4/4] Cleaning.
FAILED: meson-clean 
ninja -t clean
ninja: error: remove(meson-dist): Directory not empty
Cleaning... 0 files.

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Research direction
Investigate the ninja clean target in the Meson build system to understand why it fails to remove the meson dist directory. Trace the logic that handles the cleaning of distribution files and identify why the directory is not empty or why the removal fails.
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python
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build systemtooling
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GitMeson build system
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