make distclean target

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sun Sep 12 11:04:35 CEST 2004


Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Shouldn't the distclean target also delete the aclocal.m4 file from the 
> top_srcdir? (at least for libxfce4util it doesn't do that now).

No, because aclocal.m4 cannot be regenerated w/o having the autotools 
(autoconf in this case) installed. distclean should only cleanup stuff 
that can be regenerated by configure w/o the help of autotools.

> Maarten

Benedikt



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