Re: {Spam?} CVS-1.227; aclocal.m4 and lib/Makefile deleted by make distclean

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> `./autogen.sh' etc. won't work anymore after doing a `make distclean'
> because the latter removes aclocal.m4 and lib/Makefile.  One has to do
> a `cvs up' to get the files again.
>
> The GNU Coding Standards contain the following regarding this make
> target:
>
> ,----[ <URL:http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html> ]
> | `distclean'
> | 
> |     Delete all files in the current directory (or created by this
> |     makefile) that are created by configuring or building the
> |     program. If you have unpacked the source and built the program
> |     without creating any other files, `make distclean' should leave
> |     only the files that were in the distribution. However, there is no
> |     need to delete parent directories that were created with `mkdir
> |     -p', since they could have existed anyway.
> `----
>
> That means deleting these files doesn't seem correct.

It does not say so very explicitly.  distclean is, as it is worded
intended to turn a fresh tarball into a fresh tarball.  So it would
appear appropriate if it did not touch CVS-only files.  However, I
think that it would be ok if it deleted backup files in general that
strictly speaking would come about from editing sources, not
compiling.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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