Re: [PATCH] Makefile: don't remove configure on distclean

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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




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