Hi

Is there a description of what the different targets in the Makefile(s) do 
anywhere? For instance, what's the difference between the different 
'clean'-targets, i.e. when should you use what?

/Christian

Here are the targets I found in src/Makefile by using grep:

all: all-recursive
Makefile: # $(srcdir)/Makefile.in  $(top_builddir)/config.status
mostlyclean-libtool:
clean-libtool:
distclean-libtool:
uninstall-info-am:
install-man1: $(man1_MANS) $(man_MANS)
uninstall-man1:
maintainer-clean-recursive:
tags-recursive:
ctags-recursive:
tags: TAGS
ID: $(HEADERS) $(SOURCES) $(LISP) $(TAGS_FILES)
TAGS: tags-recursive $(HEADERS) $(SOURCES)  $(TAGS_DEPENDENCIES) \
ctags: CTAGS
CTAGS: ctags-recursive $(HEADERS) $(SOURCES)  $(TAGS_DEPENDENCIES) \
GTAGS:
distclean-tags:
distdir: $(DISTFILES)
dist-gzip: distdir
distcheck: dist
distuninstallcheck:
distcleancheck: distclean
check-am: all-am
check: check-recursive
all-am: Makefile $(MANS)
installdirs: installdirs-recursive
installdirs-am:
install: install-recursive
install-exec: install-exec-recursive
install-data: install-data-recursive
uninstall: uninstall-recursive
install-am: all-am
installcheck: installcheck-recursive
install-strip:
mostlyclean-generic:
clean-generic:
distclean-generic:
maintainer-clean-generic:
clean: clean-recursive
clean-am: clean-generic clean-libtool mostlyclean-am
distclean: distclean-recursive
distclean-am: clean-am distclean-generic distclean-libtool \
dvi: dvi-recursive
dvi-am:
info: info-recursive
info-am:
install-data-am: install-man
install-exec-am:
install-info: install-info-recursive
install-man: install-man1
installcheck-am:
maintainer-clean: maintainer-clean-recursive
maintainer-clean-am: distclean-am maintainer-clean-generic
mostlyclean: mostlyclean-recursive
mostlyclean-am: mostlyclean-generic mostlyclean-libtool
pdf: pdf-recursive
pdf-am:
ps: ps-recursive
ps-am:
uninstall-am: uninstall-info-am uninstall-man
uninstall-info: uninstall-info-recursive
uninstall-man: uninstall-man1
dist-hook:
rpmdist: dist
bindist:
doxydoc:
lgbtags:



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Christian Ridderström                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr


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