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

[Otavio Salvador]

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

> First of all thanks to Jim and Otavio for the suggestions.
>
>> > 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.
>
> Here is what I plan to do:
>
> a. Find out whether 'make distclean' restores the whole thing to the
> same state as the distribution tarball. If not then add the necessary
> things to the DISTCLEANFILES variable in the respective Makefile.am.
>
> b. Use MAINTAINERCLEANFILES to create the 'make maintainer-clean'
> target so that we have something similar to 'git clean -d'. This would
> be helpful to someone who is tinkering with the distribution tarball
> on a system where git is absent.
>
> What do you think?

Perfect :-)

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