Karl Berry writes:
> [snip automake manual blockquote]
>
> But nowadays, especially since autoreconf exists, it does not seem
> unreasonable to me to want to delete Makefile.in, configure, etc. It
> is just as easy to run autoreconf (or equivalent) as configure&&make,
> and it feels nice to have
Hi - the automake manual has (for many years) said:
@code{maintainer-clean} should not delete anything that needs to exist
in order to run @samp{./configure && make}.
@end itemize
We recommend that you follow this same set of heuristics in your
@file{Makefile.am}.
That heuris
