make maintainer-clean (was: Re: The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00)

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 15:00:08 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:15:39 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty pisze:

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The source tar ball misses the configure scripts (it has the `configure.in's, but the source tar ball should be autoconf'ed, shouldn't it?)

BTW, IMHO 'make maintainer-clean' should not delete configure scripts (comments say that it doesn't, but it does).

I dunno. 'make distclean' leaves the configure scripts in place, 'make maintainer-clean' is supposed to get you back to a pristine tree as it would be if it were just checked out from CVS.

erm, not that I say, sticking to the standards is mandatory, but... ;) $ info standards 'Managing Releases' 'Makefile Conventions' 'Standard Targets' [...] The reason we say "almost everything" is that running the command `make maintainer-clean' should not delete `configure' even if `configure' can be remade using a rule in the Makefile. More generally, `make maintainer-clean' should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run `configure' and then begin to build the program. This is the only exception; `maintainer-clean' should delete everything else that can be rebuilt. [...] There should be an additional target, e.g. "make cvs-clean", or similar. Cheers, Michael -- /~\ ASCII ribbon | "I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's \ / campaign | source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting X against | for technical support which isn't." / \ HTML mail | -- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center