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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Philip Boulton <philipb@ssimicro.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'Unable to find remote helper'
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:37:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101108193727.GA6348@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzktjprwt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> You diagnosed the problem correctly, but I do not think the patch is
> correct.  Why should the generated file *.autogen be kept around across
> "clean"?

Fair enough.  The thought was that most autoconfiscated packages
support

	./configure
	make clean
	make
	make install

since "make clean" does not remove the generated Makefile.  But the
patch was incomplete anyway, since it did not keep config.mak.append
around.

> I do understand why we keep "configure" around (it is common for everybody
> once it is generated), though.

Hmm, isn't the usual scheme something like

 - "make clean" undoes the effect of "make"
 - "make distclean" removes all generated files that are not common
   to everyone
 - "make maintainer-clean" removes all generated files

?

      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-08 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04 21:59 'Unable to find remote helper' Philip Boulton
2010-11-04 22:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-08 18:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-08 19:37     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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