Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> writes: > Jack Kelly <j...@jackkelly.name> writes: > >> It is certainly valuable to test that you can bootstrap your package >> from autoreconf up, but I don't think `make maintainer-clean' is the >> best place to do that. The `git-clean' command removes untracked files >> from the worktree, and I'm sure other VCSes let you do similar >> things. Maybe the manual could point to those commands? > > This works only when files generated by Autotools are not commited to > VCS. Having said that, I agree this is a general good practice that > ought to be documented in Automake's manual. Have you any suggestion > regarding the location and wording?
Possibly under the "What Gets Cleaned" section of the manual? -- Jack
