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Re: files left after distclean: How to clean those?
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- To: bob at proulx dot com (Bob Proulx)
- Cc: automake at mail dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:23:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: files left after distclean: How to clean those?
- References: <20020819202132.GA758@misery.proulx.com>
>>> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
[...]
Bob> example.8: src/example
Bob> help2man --output=example.8 ./src/example
[...]
Bob> But it requires help2man as a build dependency
Bob> which may not exist on a developer system.
Every time a user unpack your tarball and run make, src/example
is built. So src/example is new, and the above rule will
_always_ be triggered. So help2man'd better exist...
You get this distcheck failure because you are rebuilding a
distributed file.
[...]
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz