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

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #45646 (project octave):

@jwe: Yes, you've got it right.  'make clean' by itself removes files that
were present in the original tarball.  However it only has this issue for
in-tree builds.  VPATH builds with a separate build directory appear to be
fine from my testing.

This bug has been present for a long time but I don't think it's been a big
issue because the normal usage pattern is


tar xf octave.tar.gz
cd octave
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf octave




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