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authorAlexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>2003-07-10 20:32:44 +0000
committerAlexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>2003-07-10 20:32:44 +0000
commit076d271dad15e888875b05c23e3f269b4cfc9f2f (patch)
treeea35967930fe2ee467484a4ce0d59e66e565e16f
parent8021e02de675b6c5efda8f50d050e81ee0b5231c (diff)
downloadautomake-076d271dad15e888875b05c23e3f269b4cfc9f2f.tar.gz
For Debian Bug #193907:
* automake.texi (Clean): make maintainer-clean should still allow ./configure && make to run.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--automake.texi8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9507640d7..4b21edafc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2003-07-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
+ For Debian Bug #193907:
+ * automake.texi (Clean): make maintainer-clean should still
+ allow ./configure && make to run.
+
* automake.texi (CVS): Typo.
2003-07-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
diff --git a/automake.texi b/automake.texi
index 67ad66906..c32e1f5eb 100644
--- a/automake.texi
+++ b/automake.texi
@@ -4391,11 +4391,13 @@ want to rebuild (for instance, a @file{.o} file), then
Otherwise, if @code{make} built it, then @code{clean} should delete it.
@item
-If @code{configure} built it, then @code{distclean} should delete it
+If @code{configure} built it, then @code{distclean} should delete it.
@item
-If the maintainer built it, then @code{maintainer-clean} should
-delete it.
+If the maintainer built it (for instance, a @file{.info} file), then
+@code{maintainer-clean} should delete it. However
+@code{maintainer-clean} should not delete anything that needs to exist
+in order to run @code{./configure && make}.
@end itemize
We recommend that you follow this same set of heuristics in your