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

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #45646 (project octave):

I pushed a change

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/21c12b837089

to only delete built documentation on 'make maintainer-clean'.

I can now build in-tree from a source distribution with multiple sequences of
'./configure && make' and 'make distclean' and get repeatable results and
identical content to the original source tarball, with the only anomaly being
octave.jar.

The octave.jar file is built from some *.class files compiled from *.java
sources. The .java sources are distributed, as is the octave.jar file, but not
the .class files. This is analogous to distributing an executable and a bunch
of sources, but not the *.o files that were linked into the executable. Make
has to regenerate these intermediate files because they are missing, which
causes the end product to be overwritten.

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