[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45646] files in source distribution should not be deleted on "clean" or "distclean"

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #45646 (project octave):

Yes, that is my understanding of the clean targets.

This bug was originally about files, e.g. libinterp/parse-tree/oct-parse.cc,
that *are* deleted on make clean (because they are in BUILT_SOURCES, and all
of BUILT_SOURCES is added to CLEANFILES). This goes back to previous versions
too, in 3.8 if you unpack the offical tar release, build it, clean it, you
can't build again without installing bison.

One problem I've further noticed after reporting this is that we have some
files that we like to distribute (so they should *not* be deleted on
distclean), but if you do an out-of-tree build they are copied into the build
tree, so they *should* be deleted.

For example, DOCSTRINGS are copied (with timestamp preserved) into the build
directory. Thanks to Rik's change, they are not deleted on distclean (because
they are distributed) but that leaves leftover files for out-of-tree builds
now.

So we may need more special handling for those types of files.

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