On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Thibaut Paumard <paum...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On many of my packages, the "configure" phase modifies some files (e.g. > Makefile). > > The lines which are overwritten are totally irrelevant: they reflect the > particular set-up on which the upstream developer has packaged the original > source. > > Upstream's clean target don't revert those changes. If I don't do anything > specific, those files appear in the diff.gz file which can be considered > clutter. If I want to do avoid this, I need to clutter the rules file > instead or to use a patch system. If upstream is using autotools, use make distclean. If you are regenterating the Makefiles/configure with autotools because you patched configure.ac/Makefile.am then you want make maintainer-clean. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org