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On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 08:58, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 02:48, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > No, if it's generated by configure, and necessary to build, it should be
> > removed by a make distclean. Just like make clean shouldn't remove
> > Makefiles.
> 
> Hmmm.  The Makefiles generated by configure are kind of a special case,
> because you need them to run Makefile targets like 'distclean' :)

and intltool is needed to run "make". Otherwise "make clean ; make"
would fail, and it's supposed to work.

> I guess it's debatable whether the intltool stuff should be removed by
> upstream's 'clean' target or by their 'distclean' target.  Regardless,
> it does appear that it should definitely be removed by the debian/rules
> clean target.

Yes, although, the intltool files being removed by the clean target is
very not debatable.

<snipped configure stuff that I'm probably wrong about>

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/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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