Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another possibility is to do the cleaning in the Makefile as it's > always been done, but have config.status provide the list of > files. Something like an "@configure_targets@" macro for > config.status to replace -- the catch being that, unlike other > macros, this one's value is customized per directory. So every > Makefile.in (Automake-generated or otherwise), can just say:
> distclean-whatever: > .... > -rm -f @configure_targets@ > This accomplishes the goal of removing knowledge of Autoconf from > inside Automake, while sidestepping all these other decisions :-) I like this approach much better. It also handles cases where, for some strange reason, the user may want to take some action other than rm for such files. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
