Re: 'make clean' removes *.po with unintended consequences

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On Aug 20, 2016, at 23:17, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I suspect commit 5b44cd0 ( "build: fix sed.1 dependency; work with latest 
>> automake" ) had unintended consequences due to this:
> [...] 
> The attached patch fixes it by removing the .deps directories only
> while running distclean rules:
> <distclean-check.diff>

With the above patch, "make clean" works, but "make distclean" (in the source 
directory does not).
It also seems "make distcheck" does not for me (only tested on one Ubuntu 14.04 
machine).
Lastly, there is a new warning when building with "make".

regards,
 - assaf

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$ make
Makefile:6528: warning: overriding commands for target `distclean-local'
Makefile:6513: warning: ignoring old commands for target `distclean-local'

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$ make distcheck
[... configre + make + make check - succeed ... then ...]
rm -f TAGS ID GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS GPATH tags
rm -f cscope.out cscope.in.out cscope.po.out cscope.files
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/a/sed/sed-4.2.2.146-5cb09/_build'
Making distclean in gnulib-tests
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/a/sed/sed-4.2.2.146-5cb09/_build/gnulib-tests'
Makefile:2593: .deps/binary-io.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:2594: .deps/close.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:2595: .deps/closedir.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:2596: .deps/dup2.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:2597: .deps/fd-hook.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:2598: .deps/fdopen.Po: No such file or directory
[...]
Makefile:2718: .deps/test-xalloc-die.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:2719: .deps/unsetenv.Po: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/unsetenv.Po'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/a/sed/sed-4.2.2.146-5cb09/_build/gnulib-tests'
make[1]: *** [distclean-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/a/sed/sed-4.2.2.146-5cb09/_build'
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1