Re: Cleaning/restoring autoconf generated files
Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> writes:
> I was wondering whether Debian policy regarding the 'clean' target
> is to be interpreted as applying to the autotools generated files as
> well. (As currently stated it would appear to be so).
>
> If so then the following alternate approaches would appear to be
> possible:
>
> 1. Use the separate tar.gz approach a la DBS.
>
> 2. Save all autotools generated files before the build
> and restore them after.
There's also
3. Remove generated files in 'clean', which will cause
dpkg-source to ignore them (although with warnings). This
is a popular approach for config.guess/config.sub at least
(e.g. /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/examples/rules.gz).
Cheers,
Matej
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