make distclean target

[Maarten Boekhold]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> 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.

Is aclocal.m4 actually used by configure? I thought it was just used to 
*generate* configure...

Reason I asked is that I patched my local version of libtool (see 
"problems compiling libxfce4util" thread), and ./autogen.sh didn't 
automatically update aclocal.m4 unless I first manually deleted it...

Maarten