[parted-devel] Reverse ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make

[Otavio Salvador]

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> writes:

>>> Which is the best way to reverse the effect of:
>>> $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
>>>
>>> I have tried:
>>> $ make distclean
>>>                 but a few of the generated files still remain.
>  
>> Add the offending file names to
>> 
>> DISTCLEANFILES = ...
>> 
>> in the corresponding Makefile.am.
>
> This seems to be a better alternative than:
> $ git clean -d
> because someone who has the tarball and not the git snapshot can only use:
> $ make distclean
>
> Should we go for it?

Sure. But keep on mind that distclean is target to make it with less
generated files as possible but on the same state of the distribution
tarball. It's not target to remove the m4 macros neither the configure
script for example.

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