Re: Rarely rebuilt files

[fr33domlover]

On 2014-11-11
Simon Richter <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote:
> 
> > When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get
> > cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my
> > package this is not an error.
> 
> If you assume that few people build these files, they should be
> distributed as well (so you don't need the tools to rebuild them),
> otherwise you require your users building from source to have the tools
> anyway, and you gain nothing.
> 
> When the files are distributed, the "distcheck" should recognize that
> these belong in the source package, and not show an error.
> 
>    Simon
> 

Hmmm I think I didn't make myself clear. So just to make sure, before I cause
confusion: The files are indeed distributed validaly. The "problem" is that
they are not cleaned by `make distclean`. I intentionally made them clean only
on `make maintainer-clean`. When `make distcheck` sees they don't get cleaned
by `make distclean`, it produces an error.

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