Il giorno Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:53:48 +0100 Bas Wijnen <shevek@fmf.nl> ha scritto: > I suggest to mandate "remove all generated files in the clean target" > (formulated in a way which includes "generated by upstream", not only > "generated by the build target), which implies "rebuild everything in > the build target". I fully agree with you here: the build target should also build Makefile.in from Makefile.am, for example. Thus we clean *.in, *.sub, *.guess, in the clean target. > Now reread the previous paragraph while thinking of Makefile.in instead > of "normal build results". It is common practice to do exactly that: > ship and use pre-built versions, or even ship them in the diff.gz (which > then gets huge). Makefile.am is only present as source-file, but it > isn't used at all during the build. Any changes the user makes will not > be noticed by the build system. See what I wrote just above :) And, as a sidenote, I've just faced this. I patched a Makefile.am, and wasn't seeing any result. I also had to patch Makefile.in. That's non-sense to me. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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