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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:30:37 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
>     make maintainer-clean
>     rm aclocal.m4 configure

Does anyone know a reason why maintainer-clean shouldn't delete
aclocal.m4?

> # Elisp files auto-generated.
> AUTOGENEL = loaddefs.el \
>         $(LOADDEFS) \
>         cus-load.el \
>         finder-inf.el \
>         subdirs.el \
>         ps-print-loaddefs.el \
>         emacs-lisp/cl-loaddefs.el \
>         calc/calc-loaddefs.el \
>         eshell/esh-groups.el \
>         cedet/semantic/loaddefs.el \
>         cedet/ede/loaddefs.el \
>         cedet/srecode/loaddefs.el \
>         org/org-loaddefs.el \
>         textmodes/reftex-loaddefs.el \
>         mail/rmail-loaddefs.el \
>         ibuffer-loaddefs.el \
>         htmlfontify-loaddefs \             <============================
>         emacs-lisp/eieio-loaddefs.el \
>         dired-loaddefs.el
> 
> The third last entry is missing a ".el".  Should I just correct this in
> the emacs-26 branch?

I think you are looking at an old version of this file.  The current
version doesn't have an explicit list of files in AUTOGENEL, it
generates it.