Re: [bug-inetutils] Missing MAINTAINERCLEANFILES entry.

[Guillem Jover]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 01:20:10 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> The ping/Makefile.am does not mention Makefile.in in the
> MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. Here
> (http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/src/ping-Makefile.diff) is a
> 'diff -uNp' on ping/Makefile.am:

I think those two patches are wrong. From the GNU Standards, on
maintainer-clean:

  ...

  The reason we say "almost everything" is that running the command
  `make maintainer-clean' should not delete `configure' even if
  `configure' can be remade using a rule in the Makefile.  More
  generally, `make maintainer-clean' should not delete anything that
  needs to exist in order to run `configure' and then begin to build
  the program.  Also, there is no need to delete parent directories
  that were created with `mkdir -p', since they could have existed
  anyway.  These are the only exceptions; `maintainer-clean' should
  delete everything else that can be rebuilt.

  ...

regards,
guillem