Follow-up Comment #1, bug #29730 (project gnustep):
Thanks Quentin
yes, that's a "known" issue in gnustep-base's makefiles/configure. It's time
to fix it :-)
It works that way because the GNUmakefiles are partially generated by
./configure, so you need to do a full ./configure before you can run any
targets - including 'distclean'.
That makes sense for building or installing, but for 'distclean' it doesn't
make that much sense. I find it annoying when you can't complete the
./configure (eg, missing dependency), and you're stuck as you can't go forward
and can't even go back to a distclean state because distclean itself requires
configure.
There are a number of possible solutions, but I'd need to think a bit. It's
not an urgent issue though, may even be prudent to fix it after the release.
Suggestions (if anyone has any) are welcome. :-)
Thanks
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