Re: "make distclean" tries to clean the source tree, not the output tree

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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   this doesn't seem right:
>
> distclean: mrproper
>         @find $(srctree) $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
>                 \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
>                 ...
>
> doesn't that mean that "make distclean" will invariably try to clean
> the source tree, even if you've specified "O="?  it certainly seems
> that way.
>
> rday

never mind, i just realized how silly that complaint was, given that
running "make distclean" on a remote directory is totally meaningless.
duh.

rday
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