"make distclean" query

[Jon Grant]

Hello Ralf,

2010/1/24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>:
> 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

I did "make distclean" before seeing the error.

I created ticket:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11238

Please keep my email address in any replies.
Cheers, Jon