Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> >   ./configure
> >   make maintainer-clean    # Clean up previous build artefacts
> 
> What's the point of rerunning configure and maintainer-clean?

I sometimes do "make distclean" in a subdirectory. This removes some
but not all Makefiles. "make -k maintainer-clean" will thus fail and
not do the 'maintainer-clean' in said subdirectory.

> I can see doing that if the make -k ... failed, e.g.,
> 
>     make -k maintainer-clean || { ./configure && make maintainer-clean; }
> 
> but not unconditionally.

Yes, this is better than what I proposed.

Bruno
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