On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Which means it has nothing to do with cleaning the tree to a
> distribution state (or state 'ready for distribution'.)
See, I think that's the difference of interpretation here. *I* interpret
distclean to mean not "ready for distribution" but "back to essentially
the way it was when I unpacked the distribution". The difference being
that I'd be irritated as hell if I lost my configuration information which
has no impact on the "state" of the build environment, as opposed to the
Makefiles and so on which do affect the state. If I make distclean, it
means I want to start over again with the first step out of the tarball,
namely configure. It doesn't mean I want to lose the options I passed to
configure.
My $0.02.
--Cliff
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Cliff Woolley
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