Building Recode[1], which uses a recent gnulib (commit 035ce56a33 of
5th January 2022), I find that when I run "make distcheck", some
.deps/*.Plo files generated by the build are not removed by any clean
rule, leading "make distcheck" to report:
ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
./lib/.deps/asnprintf.Plo
./lib/.deps/calloc.Plo
./lib/.deps/canonicalize-lgpl.Plo
./lib/.deps/close.Plo
./lib/.deps/dup2.Plo
./lib/.deps/error.Plo
./lib/.deps/fcntl.Plo
./lib/.deps/free.Plo
./lib/.deps/fseterr.Plo
etc.
On investigation, the relevant object files are listed in gl_LIBOBJS
and gl_LTLIBOBJS, which is used by libgnu_la_LIBADD.
With automake 1.15, the distclean rule looks like this:
distclean: distclean-recursive
-rm -rf ./$(DEPDIR) malloc/$(DEPDIR)
With automake 1.16, the distclean rule looks like this:
distclean: distclean-recursive
-rm -f ./$(DEPDIR)/libgnu_la-argmatch.Plo
-rm -f ./$(DEPDIR)/libgnu_la-asnprintf.Plo
-rm -f ./$(DEPDIR)/libgnu_la-asprintf.Plo
etc.
However, the dep files corresponding to gl_LIBOBJS are not listed,
hence are not removed.
[1] https://github.com/rrthomas/recode/
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