Re: [AD] 'distclean' patch

[Daniel Schlyder <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Wang:
> I'd rather not apply this patch as-is, as it makes as special case out of
> DISTCLEAN_FILES. How about just renaming docs/txt/tmpfile.txt? Say,
> docs/txt/tmpfile.tmp.

Good idea.


Elias Pschernig:
> Maybe the $(filter-out) can be applied already in makefile.lst? The real
> mistake is to include the tmpfile.txt there in the first place (and
> therefore makefile.in has the same problem as makefile.all).

Yes, of course. I attached a patch to do this, but...

> But I agree - just renaming the tmpfile.txt is a better idea (I'd prefer
> "emptyfile" over "tmpfile.tmp" - it's a permanent file after all).

...this is probably the best solution.

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