On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 08:48:09PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 07:28:44PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > > non_ascii.tar should probably also go in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. > > Agreed.
OK, so the automake manual says: However ‘maintainer-clean’ should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run ‘./configure && make’. So it shouldn't be deleted by "make maintainer-clean", as otherwise someone could run this command from a tarball and be unable to get the file back ("make" would still work, but "make check" wouldn't).