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

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    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'.

   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.

Sorry, I was refering to maintainer-clean.  distclean is supposed to
make the source directory look as if it was just an extracted tarball,
and the info files are supposed to be distributed as part of the
distribution.

   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?

maintainer-clean will remove it, but what are you trying to achive?
It is on purpose that the info files are distributed as part of the
source tree.