Aaron Plattner wrote:
>> It is true that ChangeLog, INSTALL NEWS, AUTHORS and some other files
>> cannot be deleted. This is a designed behaviour by autoconf/automake. I
>> have seen on the net not everyone agrees with that.
>
> If they're checked into the git repository, that sounds right. If they're
> generated though, like ChangeLog is, then at least maintainer-clean (and
> probably also clean or even mostlyclean) ought to clean it. The automake
> documentation describes the clean rules this way:
clean should not, since there's no way for a tarball user to get it back.
maintainer-clean should, which is what was previously done, since that
will only be active for people building from git, especially now that
autogen.sh is not included in the tarballs.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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