make distclean target

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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. 

or, more accurately, 'make distclean' should return the source tree to a 
state as if you'd just unpacked it from a tarball.

    -brian