[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#646840: fails to build from source twice in a row

[Peter Eisentraut]

On fre, 2011-11-04 at 19:19 +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > Here is what an Autoconf-generated configure script does:
> > 
> > rm -f core *.core core.conftest.*
> 
> But this command will not delete your core files.  I guess adding
> core.* will do that.  Also, core.conftest.* is reduntant in our case
> as these are the core files produced by the failed autoconf tests.

Well, "conftest" is the name of their executable.  core.* sounds
reasonable.