On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:13 -0500, David Fang wrote: > > > Forgive a newbie question, how do I completely clean all generated > > > files? - Apart from doing it manually? I tried "make distclean" but it's > > > still leaving some auto generated stuff lying around. > > > > I don't know the answer to that. Generally it's not something you *need* > > to do; though I can see how it would be handy when you're first > > importing your project into revision control. For that purpose I've just > > manually removed the generated files. > > Hi, > There's a target called 'maintainer-clean' that will remove them. > This target, however, is enabled by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, in your > configure.ac. It is disabled by default, and in its place are Makefile > targets for automatically re-invoking the proper autotools and > config.status when the relevant input files have changed. I typically > keep around a "rm `find ...`" script for removing maintainer-files to that > I don't have to configure-generate a Makefile before maintainer-cleaning, > which is extremely rare (for me). > > > David Fang Ah OK, Thanks! I actually don't really need it that much, as I was just wanting to make sure it was clean for my initial CVS import... so I only need to use it once. -- Daniel Pekelharing <legendstar@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
