Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > make distclean conventionally restores the extracted release tarball to > its original distributed contents by cleaning the source code for > distribution. However, the configure script is part of the distribution > and should not be removed. This behavior is creating problems on my > package infrastructure where configure-based packages have make > distclean run afterwards and then the subsequent git build fails. Without a target that truly cleans any build artifacts over what is recorded in the commit to replace "make distclean", this is a regression. It seems people use "make reallyclean" or something for that, perhaps? > Signed-off-by: Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Makefile | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 6f5986b66e..c488b914a0 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -3723,7 +3723,6 @@ dist-doc: git$X > ### Cleaning rules > > distclean: clean > - $(RM) configure > $(RM) config.log config.status config.cache > $(RM) config.mak.autogen config.mak.append > $(RM) -r autom4te.cache