It this solution is so obvious, I don't understand why autotools developers have not already set up a tool which automatically removes the files generated by the autotools (perhaps this tool exists and I don't know about).
It is called 'make maintainer-clean'. Unfortunately, if time stamps are wrong, the Makefile may try to rebuild itself before executing the target.
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