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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:27:04 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > > make distclean is broken.
> 
> > No, it isn't.  "make distclean" is for when you build from a release
> > tarball, not when you build from Git after checking out a different
> > version of the tree.
> 
> OK, let me correct that: "make distclean's documentation is unclear".  It
> fails to state clearly what you've just said.

I think it does, but more documentation is available in
standards.texi.

> But I'll have a go at make extraclean, now.

Thanks.