For Debian Bug #193907:

* automake.texi (Clean): make maintainer-clean should still
allow ./configure && make to run.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 808a5afcc91702bd82522b3244117c18c8c47ba3..07f3fa5aa64a9b445f5f400c84edd68a94e80feb 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2003-07-10  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>
 
+       For Debian Bug #193907:
+       * automake.texi (Clean): make maintainer-clean should still
+       allow ./configure && make to run.
+
        * automake.texi (CVS): Typo.
 
 2003-07-09  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

diff --git a/automake.texi b/automake.texi
index 79e4da773e74a7a43aff125cfe1c13d9801d86cb..3b63a391fcb2902e21d27060f9fb4282f2f48934 100644 (file)
--- a/automake.texi
+++ b/automake.texi
@@ -4505,11 +4505,13 @@ want to rebuild (for instance, a @file{.o} file), then
 Otherwise, if @code{make} built it, then @code{clean} should delete it.
 
 @item
-If @code{configure} built it, then @code{distclean} should delete it
+If @code{configure} built it, then @code{distclean} should delete it.
 
 @item
-If the maintainer built it, then @code{maintainer-clean} should
-delete it.
+If the maintainer built it (for instance, a @file{.info} file), then
+@code{maintainer-clean} should delete it.  However
+@code{maintainer-clean} should not delete anything that needs to exist
+in order to run @code{./configure && make}.
 @end itemize
 
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