Re: question about gnome-doc-utils.make and DISTCLEANFILES

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 6/8/07, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> Somebody recently filed a bug against my project saying that they
> couldn't build it after running `make distclean` due to a missing
> gnome-doc-utils.make (see https://gna.org/bugs/?9293).  I had followed
> the gnome-doc-utils migration instructions
> (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo) which tell you to
> add gnome-doc-utils.make to DISTCLEANFILES.  However, if I look at the
> automake manual which describes when to add things to DISTCLEANFILES
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_mono/automake.html.gz#Clean),
> it says the following:
>     * If make built it, and it is commonly something that one would
> want to rebuild (for instance, a .o file), then mostlyclean should
> delete it.
>     * Otherwise, if make built it, then clean should delete it.
>     * If configure built it, then distclean should delete it.
>     * If the maintainer built it (for instance, a .info file), then
> maintainer-clean should delete it. However maintainer-clean should not
> delete anything that needs to exist in order to run ./configure &&
> make.
>
> Since configure did not build gnome-doc-utils.make (or otherwise he
> would have been able to build my project after make distclean by
> simply running ./configure again), it seems that this file shouldn't
> be added to DISTCLEANFILES.  In fact, it doesn't seem to fit any of
> the categories mentioned above. Any thoughts?
>
> --
> jonner

anyone?

--
jonner