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Re: [rfa] make clean should remove observe.h and observer.inc
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:27:44 -0800
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
>
> Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >> That brings up another question. What about <lang>-exp.c? Technically
> >> they are generated files. Should make clean remove them?
> >
> > I would say no - we check them in so to allow users to build
> > GDB without requiring bison/flex. It would be problematic for
> > them if they disappeared at a simple "make clean".
> >
>
> We don't check them in -- they're not in cvs. We add them to the tar
> file when we make a release.
>
> OK, though, how about "make distclean"?
Same for "make distclean"; "make distclean" should restore the source
tree into the state it was in just after untarring the GDB release
tarball.