Re: Automake and Texinfo: clean the info or pdf file

[Andrew W. Nosenko]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:14, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:19:27 -0400
> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>    If I call :
>>    $ make
>>    The .info file is built.
>>
>>    If I call :
>>    $ make clean
>>    The .info file is not cleaned.
>>
>>    It is the same thing for pdf, if I call :
>>    $ make pdf
>>    The .pdf file is built.
>>
>>    If I call :
>>    $ make clean
>>    The .pdf file is not cleaned.
>>
>>    Is there a rule which clean the .info or .pdf file?
>>
>> That is as intended, documentation is supposed to be distribtued with
>> the tarball so that users do not need to install whatever tools are
>> needed to generate it, hence why `make clean' does not remove them.
>> If you wish to remove all generated files, you'll need to do `make
>> distclean'.

Not so strightforward.  'make distclean' should remove all generated
files that don't included into distribution.  Therefore, .info should
be left inplace, same as Makefile.in (both generated, but included
into tarball), but Makefile (plain "final" one) should be removed
because generarated and not included into tarball.

>>
>>
>
> Now, when I call :
> $ make clean
> the .pdf file is removed correctly :-)
>
> If I call :
> $ make distclean
> the .info file isn't removed but the .pdf file and the Makefile are removed.
> I am suprise to see my Makefile disappears and I must run the configure 
> script in order to build it again.
> The only way I found to remove my .info file is to call the rm command 
> manually.
>
> What target can help me to remove the .info file built with the make command?
> Why the Makefile is removed when I call the distclean target?

About Makefile see above.


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Andrew W. Nosenko <address@hidden>