Re: make distclean is broken

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:36:48AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > Just noticed "make distclean" is broken (in branch-1-5):
> >
> > address@hidden:~/shared/gnu/libtool/libtool$ make distclean
> > Making distclean in f77demo
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/libtool/libtool/f77demo'
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/libtool/libtool/f77demo'
> > make: *** [distclean-recursive] Error 1
> 
> This problem has existed for ages (and has caused some heartburn).
> If you do 'make check' before the 'make distclean' then it will
> probably work.  Otherwise the necessary makefiles are missing.

Uhm.. weird :)

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)