GNU bug report logs - #32074
maintainer-clean and removing configure/Makefile.in/etc.

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Message #20 received at 32074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jack Kelly <jack <at> jackkelly.name>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Subject: Re: bug#32074: maintainer-clean and removing
 configure/Makefile.in/etc.
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 08:29:57 +1000

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Jack Kelly <jack <at> jackkelly.name> writes:
>
>> It is certainly valuable to test that you can bootstrap your package
>> from autoreconf up, but I don't think `make maintainer-clean' is the
>> best place to do that. The `git-clean' command removes untracked files
>> from the worktree, and I'm sure other VCSes let you do similar
>> things. Maybe the manual could point to those commands?
>
> This works only when files generated by Autotools are not commited to
> VCS.  Having said that, I agree this is a general good practice that
> ought to be documented in Automake's manual.  Have you any suggestion
> regarding the location and wording?

Possibly under the "What Gets Cleaned" section of the manual?

-- Jack

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