Trevor Harmon <tre...@vocaro.com> writes: > On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Peter Johansson wrote:
>> Of note, GCS states that: "More generally, ‘make maintainer-clean’ >> should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run >> configure and then begin to build the program". > Yes, but that rule of thumb is at odds with another rule of thumb: > "Never commit generated files to a source code repository." And > considering that "autoreconf -i" does a perfect job of regenerating all > of the files I listed, I'm willing to break the GCS rule. Besides, I'm > the only developer on this little project, so nobody will care but > me. :) Yeah, I've always ignored this part of the GCS for all of my projects. I don't think it makes a lot of sense. If one doesn't want to remove the generated files, that's what make distclean is for. Although I must admit that now that I've switched to Git for everything, I'm finding myself more and more just using git clean -x -f -d rather than worrying about the maintainer-clean target. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
