[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Maynard, Chris wrote:
>> Before attempting to compile Ethereal 0.99.0 on Windows, I ran "nmake -f
>> Makefile.nmake distclean", but it failed.
> 
> In what fashion does it fail?

It looks like it fails in the sense that the "asn1" directory isn't
present the 0.99.0 source distribution.  It's not in the 0.10.14, .13,
.12, .11, .10, and .9 distributions either, and there doesn't seem to be
anything in the top-level Makefile.am that would add it.

>> It seems that the changes
>> added in version 17410 are responsible.  I deleted those 3 lines added
>> in that version and it ran fine.
> 
> The second of those sentences doesn't imply the first of them.  The
> three lines added just cause a distclean to be done in the top-level
> asn1 directory; that could mean that what's responsible is a problem
> with the clean/distclean/maintainerclean rules in the asn1 directory's
> Makefile.nmake.
> 
> There were, in fact, no distclean or maintainerclean rules, and the
> top-level clean rule used "cd.." instead of "cd .." - the former was
> definitely a problem, and the latter might be, so I've checked in
> changes to fix both (and not removed the lines from 17410, as somebody
> presumably added them for a reason).
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