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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 21:17:41 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

OK, let me correct that: "make distclean's documentation is unclear".  It
fails to state clearly what you've just said.

But I'll have a go at make extraclean, now.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).