Re: Git master head build failure?

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:33, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:10:50 +1100
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > I wonder if it would be possible for make maintainer-clean to somehow
> > look at what is in .gitignore and ensure anything in there is also
> > removed? Would be good if at least that target returned the repo to an
> > exact replica of what you would get if you did a fresh clone.
>
> First, you should be using extraclean, not maintainer-clean; see the
> top-level Makefile.in for the documentation of the various clean
> targets.
>
> And second, we should simply make sure extraclean removes all the
> generated files, as documented, and keep it that way.  Looking into
> .gitignore means either building its interpreter into our build system
> (a non-trivial job, AFAIU), or using Git itself to do the job, which
> would mean the job cannot be done without Git -- a disadvantage, IMO.
>

In that case, either extraclean should be added to the make help output or
if the preferred mechanism is to read Makefile.in, then remove make help.

-- 
regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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