From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Makefile.in Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:38:29 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200403131638.i2DGcTf00217@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079196890 6485 80.91.224.253 (13 Mar 2004 16:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 17:54:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2CPK-0007Ae-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:54:42 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2CPK-0005w4-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:54:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2CDT-0005oU-0o for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:42:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2CBc-0005SI-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2CB4-0005NJ-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2CB4-0005NG-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2DGdsKt018681 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:39:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i2DGcTf00217; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:38:29 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20391 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20391 Part of the documentation in Makefile.in, quoted below, looks strange. >>From it, I would get the impression that .elc files would be deleted by `make clean' and certainly by `make distclean'. This does not happen. Is the fact that it does not happen a bug or is it to be expected? If it is not a bug then why does the text below seem to suggest that the difference between `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' consists of the removal of some obscure stuff, whereas the main difference is that `make maintainer-clean' removes .elc files. Note that I am by no means an expert on make files, but the information quoted below does seem to be relevant even to non make file experts. # make clean or make mostlyclean # Delete all files from the current directory that are normally # created by building the program. Don't delete the files that # record the configuration. Also preserve files that could be made # by building, but normally aren't because the distribution comes # with them. # # Delete `.dvi' files here if they are not part of the distribution. # # make distclean # Delete all files from the current directory 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. # # make maintainer-clean # Delete everything from the current directory that can be # reconstructed with this Makefile. This typically includes # everything deleted by distclean, plus more: C source files # produced by Bison, tags tables, info files, and so on. # # make extraclean # Still more severe - delete backup and autosave files, too. Sincerely, Luc.