On 08/10/19 14:41, Peter Maydell wrote: > The autoconf manual suggests some heuristics: > - If make built it, and it is commonly something that one would want > to rebuild (for instance, a .o file), then mostlyclean should delete it. > - Otherwise, if make built it, then clean should delete it. > - If configure built it, then distclean should delete it. > - If the maintainer built it (for instance, a .info file), then > maintainer-clean should delete it. However maintainer-clean should > not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run > './configure && make'. > > Not all of that applies for QEMU, but it seems like a reasonable > set of ideas.
Right, considering we don't have mostlyclean, it boils down to "if make built it, then clean should delete it; if configure built it, then distclean should delete it". Paolo
