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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 'Unable to find remote helper'
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:37:27 -0600
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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

?