On Saturday 2011-04-09 20:10, Phillip Susi wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 04/09/2011 08:17 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Which is entirely normal. `make distclean` is supposed to clean the tree >> for _distribution_, in other words, such that one can immediately rerun >> configure, and not have to use autoreconf first. And Makefile.in is >> something that is part of the standard distribution. > >And maintainer-clean? Per the manual (standards.info, not autoconf.info): `maintainer-clean' Delete almost everything that can be reconstructed with this Makefile. This typically includes everything deleted by `distclean', plus more: C source files produced by Bison, tags tables, Info files, and so on. The reason we say "almost everything" is that running the command `make maintainer-clean' should not delete `configure' even if `configure' can be remade using a rule in the Makefile. More generally, `make maintainer-clean' should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run `configure' and then begin to build the program. Also, there is no need to delete parent directories that were created with `mkdir -p', since they could have existed anyway. These are the only exceptions; `maintainer-clean' should delete everything else that can be rebuilt. [...] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html