"make distclean" query

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Jon,

* Jon Grant wrote on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:30:03PM CET:
> I notice that if I wish to run ./configure with different CFLAGS when
> the cvs checkout has already been configured I get an error (see
> attached log). The workaround is to delete config.status in each
> sub-dir as well as doing make distclean.

The workaround should be either
  find $top_builddir -name config.cache | xargs rm -f

or
  make distclean

and if the latter doesn't work, then that is a bug in the build system,
which you should report.  An easy workaround hammer for the latter is
  rm -rf $top_builddir

provided that your build tree is separate from your source tree.

Cheers,
Ralf