On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:25:07PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> 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.
it may be worth following the gnu project's lead on these targets,
since they use the same names.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_55.html#SEC55
(for them, distclean == what is in the tarball.)
jim
