Hello, the target maintainer-clean contains -test -z "$(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES)" || rm -f $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES)
which means that the files are cleaned only in the build tree. But the files which are cleaned by maintainer-clean, but not distclean, are usually distributed, because it is supposed that the ``special tools'' needed to created them are not available on the user's machine. Could we perhaps change the above command to: -test -n "$(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES)" && \ rm -f $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) && \ cd $(srcdir) && rm -f $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES) (I'm willing to implemement this eventually.) Stepan