On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 11:51 +0100, David Aldrich wrote:
> My makefile does not define target 'clean' so I must be using the implicit 
> clean target.

There is no implicit clean target.

If you run "make clean" and something happens, then somewhere in your
makefile environment you have created a "clean" target and that target
is being invoked.  There's no built-in version of "clean".

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