Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] "make distcheck" failure

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:38:49 -0800
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:29:49PM -0600, Gerald Combs wrote:
> ERROR: files left after distclean:
> ./ps.c

That's probably a result of Brad Hards' change to explicitly *not*
delete it, as it's part of the tarball; he changed the top-level
Makefile.am to arrange that stuff that's generated but that's also
shipped with the tarball not be deleted.

If it's not part of the tarball, it's OK for "make distclean" to nuke it
- and "make distclean" should nuke it.

If it *is* part of the tarball, I'm curious why "make distcheck" is
complaining about it still being there after "make distclean":

	http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_55.html#SEC55

"`distclean' 
     Delete all files from the current directory that are created by
     configuring or building the program.  If you have unpacked the
     source and built the program without creating any other files,
     `make distclean' should leave only the files that were in the
     distribution."

Is "ps.c" part of the tarball?