'make clean' empties the whole plugin directory

[michael0710]

Using the make clean command with the given Makefile cleans the whole path given by the variable PLUGIN_DIR. The Makefile does not distinguish between files installed, using this Makefile, or files that existed beforehand. Therefore, any other plugin installed in that directory will be deleted with a call to make clean.

Using the command make clean shall only remove the files, that were copied beforehand using make install-multiple or make install-single.

[vfg27]

You are absolutely right.
The previous clean target was removing everything inside $(PLUGIN_DIR), which could unintentionally delete other Wireshark plugins that were not installed by this Makefile.
That was not the intended behavior, make clean should only remove the files that were installed via make install-single or make install-multiple.
I’ve now fixed the clean target so that it only removes the specific files copied by this project and leaves any other existing plugins untouched.
Thanks for reporting this 👍