perhaps a silly question, but ...

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Jan-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| I'm attempting a fresh build (haven't tried since arpack and other  
| things have changed).
| 
| During my attempt I did a "make clean" to prepare for another "make"  
| and encountered something I hadn't noticed before, so I thought I'd  
| ask if this is normal
| 
| make clean
| [...]
| making clean in src
| making oct-errno.cc from oct-errno.cc.in
| making bitfcns.df from bitfcns.cc
| making data.df from data.cc
| making debug.df from debug.cc
| making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
| defaults.h is unchanged
| making defaults.df from defaults.cc
| making dirfns.df from dirfns.cc
| making error.df from error.cc
| making file-io.df from file-io.cc
| making graphics.df from graphics.cc
| [...]
| 
| Once the "make clean" entered the sources, it appears to me "making"  
| rather than "cleaning".
| 
| Is something amiss or have I just not been paying attention?

Try running

  make clean omit_deps=true

jwe