Re: distclean doesn't remove nodist BUILT_SOURCES

[Jirka Hanika]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:56:36AM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>   I have some files in BUILT_SOURCES and in nodist_xxx_SOURCES,
> so that they are not distributed.
>
>   I'd expect that ``make distclean'' would remove them, but that's
> not the case.  (I had to add a distclean-local rule to remove them,
> so that ``make distclean'' gets the tree to the original state.)
>
>   Isn't this a bug in automake?  (I use automake-1.9.2.)

I don't know.  "make distclean" is supposed to remove nodist_, while
removing BUILT_SOURCES is supposed to need "make maintainerclean",
by the GNU Makefile standards, as you know better than I do.

Anyway, I like the present behavior as it allows you to obtain the opposite
one by including those files in DISTCLEANFILES, which I suggest to you as
a perhaps slightly more robust solution.

...unless Alexandre decides it is a bug and throws in a patch.

Jirka