On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > make distclean should not delete the files in the first place. The > > distclean target should remove only generated files which are not included > > in the distribution (such as object code), and since this bison output is > > rightly included in the distribution, it should be left alone. > > But it is a generated file, which shouldn't be included in the > tarball, so it could be righteously deleted by distlcean, no?
Why should it not be included in the tarball? Typically, bison output is included in a distribution tarball, so that bison is not required in order to build from source. -- - mdz
