From 4fcb1a668095593b991e5d2722faece05a6958a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:11:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add maintainer-clean.

---
 TODO | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 3d3899de..aaa4f5cd 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,30 @@
 we need a document describing automake from the end user's point of view
 eg describe INSTALL_HEADER there, among other things
 
+* maintainer-clean
+
+Akim:
+> @@ -31,5 +31,9 @@
+>  DISTCLEAN	-test -z "$(DISTCLEANFILES)" || rm -f $(DISTCLEANFILES)
+>
+>  maintainer-clean-generic:
+> +## FIXME: shouldn't we really print these messages before running
+> +## the dependencies?
+> +	@echo "This command is intended for maintainers to use"
+> +	@echo "it deletes files that may require special tools to rebuild."
+> 	  -rm -f Makefile.in
+
+Tom:
+> I'd like to eventually fix the FIXME comment by having
+> maintainer-clean look like:
+>
+>     maintainer-clean:
+> 	  @echo ...
+> 	  $(MAKE) whatever
+>
+> We're left with the question of whether we should repeat them in every
+> subdir.
+
 *
     Alexandre Oliva:
     > Hmm...  Interesting.  It must have been a side effect of the enabling
@@ -679,3 +703,7 @@ that aren't mentioned?
 * quoting bugs
   - how to install file with a space in its name?
   [ don't bother with this -- make is just too losing ]
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+End:
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