Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap?

[Gregory Heytings]

> It's not clear from the comments what extraclean does.  The comments 
> just say it does "delete backup and autosave files, too", without 
> specifying the files whose backup and autosave files get deleted.

extraclean removes all generated files, and also all *~ and #* files.  If 
removing these files is a potential problem, they could perhaps be kept by 
bootstrap (or be kept conditionally to some variable).  But note that *~ 
files are by default not created by Emacs, unless you've set 
vc-make-backup-files to t in your init file.