From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qml7F-00041r-Vh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:20:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qml7C-00040b-M7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:20:29 -0400 Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4E32976D.5090605@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:20:13 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1311652562-10794-1-git-send-email-cerbere@gmail.com> <1311652562-10794-2-git-send-email-cerbere@gmail.com> <4E3023BA.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4E3023BA.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: distclean should clean all possible targets List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Roth Cc: Alexandre Raymond , qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Qemu Developers On 07/27/2011 04:42 PM, Michael Roth wrote: >> "Delete all files in the current directory (or created by this >> makefile) that are created by configuring or building the program. If >> you have unpacked the source and built the program without creating >> any other files, ‘make distclean’ should leave only the files that >> were in the distribution. However, there is no need to delete parent >> directories that were created with ‘mkdir -p’, since they could have >> existed anyway. " >> >> Now, if everyone agrees that "distclean" is fine as it is, I won't >> insist on anything. > > I'm with you in that distclean to me reads as "make clean for > re-distribution". i.e. a pristine source tree. It should be like that _as long as you rerun make distclean before every reconfiguration_. Paolo