Those filed hold variables, settings and information set by the
configuration process run by './configure'; in Autotools-based
build system that kind of stuff should only be removed by
"make distclean". Having it removed by "make clean" is not only
inconsistent, but causes real confusion for that part of the Git
audience that is used to the Autotools semantics; for example,
an autotools old-timer that has run:
./configure --prefix /opt/git
in the past, without running "make distclean" afterwards, would
expect a "make install" issued after a "make clean" to rebuild and
install git in '/opt/git'; but with the current behaviour, the
"make clean" invocation removes (among the other things) the file
'config.mak.autogen', so that the "make install" falls back to the
default prefix of '$HOME', thus installing git in the user's home
directory -- definitely unexpected.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 285c660..88a76a3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2742,6 +2742,9 @@ dist-doc:
distclean: clean
$(RM) configure
+ $(RM) config.log config.status config.cache
+ $(RM) config.mak.autogen config.mak.append
+ $(RM) -r autom4te.cache
profile-clean:
$(RM) $(addsuffix *.gcda,$(addprefix $(PROFILE_DIR)/, $(object_dirs)))
@@ -2756,8 +2759,6 @@ clean: profile-clean
$(RM) -r $(dep_dirs)
$(RM) -r po/build/
$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
- $(RM) -r autom4te.cache
- $(RM) config.log config.mak.autogen config.mak.append config.status config.cache
$(RM) -r $(GIT_TARNAME) .doc-tmp-dir
$(RM) $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.tar.gz
$(RM) $(htmldocs).tar.gz $(manpages).tar.gz
--
1.7.10.2.1067.g553d16e
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