Bug#752339: Some questions about RFS: dbuskit/0.1.1-1 [ITP]

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

Paul Gevers wrote:
> > It is done by `make distclean'.
> 
> I hate to disagree, but for me it doesn't.

Of course, sorry about that :(.  Make does not recurse into the Tests
directory by default.  Fixed, and I explicitly delete them before the
build too.

> E.g. it seems that you removed libtool for a reason, but once you
> are building, it is back as the source is unpacked and you don't
> remove it in a clean action.

I remove libtool because I get dpkg-source failures; that file should
never be distributed anyway.  It is harmless as gnustep-make cannot be
used with libtool.

> By the way, that file is restored by the `make distclean` command.

Yes, because GNUmakefile includes config.make and it's missing in a
clean tree, the rule to rebuild it is triggered which runs configure
which in turn generates the libtool script.  Easily fixable upstream.

I just switched to dh-autoreconf so it doesn't happen anymore (since
configure is deleted the rule fails).