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Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?



On 15/03/11 22:29, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> The current best practice for dealing with packages using GNU autotools
> (as described in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz) is to
> run autoreconf in a prerequisite of a build target, and to remove its
> results in the clean target.
> 
> However that README does not give any hints on how to best do the
> cleaning. How are others doing it?

Just use dh_autoreconf (or autoreconf.mk) from the dh-autoreconf package.

Cheers,
Emilio


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