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

[Jim Meyering]

Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
...
>> 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.

If you want to remove even more than distclean, use
"make maintainer-clean" and add the files you want to remove
to MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.