Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Why can Emacs not have a reliable way of cleaning up configuration and
>> build products (and _only_ these) such that a clean build can then be
>> done?
> How the Emacs build system could know the products generated of the
> future? Because this is the problem you faced.

We don't need to solve this impossible problem.
Instead we just need to make a rule in GNUmakefile (which is not
autoconf-generated contrarily to Makefile) to remove all the
auto-generated files of the present.


        Stefan