macos-setup: work around a botch in GLib "make distclean".

[skip ci]

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/macos-setup.sh b/tools/macos-setup.sh
index 7733d9a06b..a53b4b725e 100755
--- a/tools/macos-setup.sh
+++ b/tools/macos-setup.sh
@@ -815,7 +815,14 @@ uninstall_glib() {
         echo "Uninstalling GLib:"
         cd glib-$installed_glib_version
         $DO_MAKE_UNINSTALL || exit 1
-        make distclean || exit 1
+        #
+        # This appears to delete dependencies out from under other
+        # Makefiles in the tree, causing it to fail.  At least until
+        # that gets fixed, if it ever gets fixed, we just ignore the
+        # exit status of "make distclean"
+        #
+        # make distclean || exit 1
+        make distclean || echo "Ignoring make distclean failure" 1>&2
         cd ..
         rm glib-$installed_glib_version-done