Re: [PATCH] RE: make distclean doesn't

[William A. Rowe, Jr.]

From: "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 3:22 AM


> I use distclean on my computer all the time. Along with extraclean. Neither
> of those targets should toss config.nice. *That* is what I mean.
> 
> To be clear: nothing in our build/config/whatever should remove config.nice

Then it goes into the tarball.  Is that what you intend?

> "Clean" rules are about cleaning out state that might affect a build in some
> way. So we toss object files, generate makefiles, the configure script,
> whatever. But config.nice doesn't fall into that camp because it is not a
> "stateful" file. It is for the user to rebuild what they had before.

Which means it has nothing to do with cleaning the tree to a distribution 
state (or state 'ready for distribution'.)