make distclean target

[Benedikt Meurer]

Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>>> 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...

For the archive: export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="--force" prior to autogen.sh 
fixes this problem, but don't this in general, use only if you really 
need to override aclocal.m4.

> Maarten

Benedikt