Re: Q. about dh_make

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Yves Arrouye wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Yves,

> Any idea why the dh_make-generated rules call $(MAKE) clean instead of
> $(MAKE) distclean, which makes the diffs much smaller? Just curious...

dh_make-generated rules call "$(MAKE) distclean" if this package has a
configure file and "$(MAKE) clean" if it hasn't one. If the program
doesn't use autoconf, it's not unlikely that there's no "distclean" target
in the makefile.

> YA

cu,
Adrian

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