Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean

[Russ Allbery]

Roger Leigh <address@hidden> writes:

> The average user won't know this.  Subsequent recursive targets called
> from the top-level will now fail due to the missing Makefile, so it
> seems of dubious value to me too.

Not all distclean targets remove the Makefile.  Not all of us use
Automake.  The ability to remove autoconf-generated files in a
subdirectory is still useful, at least to me.  Usually for things like
version-control operations or the like.

But I'm guessing I probably won't be able to use the new support anyway,
given the underlying assumptions, so it probably doesn't make a lot of
difference.  I just hope that the Autoconf documentation will describe the
files that could potentially be created for those of us who will still
need to write our own makefiles.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>