"make distclean" error

[Nick Clifton]

Hi J.G.

> I have noticed this before, is there a reason "make distclean" has
> these errors, they do not seem to cause any problems.

> rmdir texinfo/doc texinfo/info texinfo/intl texinfo/lib 2>/dev/null
> make: [local-distclean] Error 1 (ignored)

Yup - the Makefile script is set up to ignore this.  It is not a
problem, since the script is only trying to delete directories that
did not exist in the first place.  If it makes you feel any better you
could apply this patch to create them first (if they did not exist)
thus suppressing the error message.  (You will need to regenerate
Makefile.in first before using it).

Cheers
        Nick

Index: Makefile.tpl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/Makefile.tpl,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -c -3 -p -r1.81 Makefile.tpl
*** Makefile.tpl	13 Oct 2003 21:45:29 -0000	1.81
--- Makefile.tpl	30 Oct 2003 11:02:53 -0000
*************** local-distclean:
*** 630,637 ****
--- 630,640 ----
  	-rm -rf $(BUILD_SUBDIR)
  	-rm -f texinfo/po/Makefile texinfo/po/Makefile.in texinfo/info/Makefile
  	-rm -f texinfo/doc/Makefile texinfo/po/POTFILES
+ 	-mkdir -p texinfo/doc texinfo/info texinfo/intl texinfo/lib 2>/dev/null
  	-rmdir texinfo/doc texinfo/info texinfo/intl texinfo/lib 2>/dev/null
+ 	-mkdir -p texinfo/makeinfo texinfo/po texinfo/util 2>/dev/null
  	-rmdir texinfo/makeinfo texinfo/po texinfo/util 2>/dev/null
+ 	-mkdir -p fastjar gcc libiberty texinfo zlib 2>/dev/null
  	-rmdir fastjar gcc libiberty texinfo zlib 2>/dev/null
  
  local-maintainer-clean: