Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:53:43 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > > make clean and make distclean fail because around 12 files in m4/
> > > are missing.
> 
> > These targets should be invoked _before_ checking out another
> > revision, not after.  Otherwise, you get a bunch of Makefile's that
> > are inconsistent with the working tree contents.
> 
> Yes, that works better, thanks.  But not perfectly.

You want extraclean instead, and if that isn't perfect either, it
needs to be fixed to remove whatever it fails to remove.

> make distclean is broken.

No, it isn't.  "make distclean" is for when you build from a release
tarball, not when you build from Git after checking out a different
version of the tree.