"make distclean" does not bring back build tree to previous state

[Preuße , Hilmar]

Hello,

I got a report telling that "make distclean" does not bring back the 
build tree into the original state. After running a build (configure 
line below) and calling "make distclean", we have a few differences. 
Some files were deleted, some files were re-generated and hence show a 
different time stamp inside the file:

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        deleted:    INSTALL
        deleted:    build-aux/compile
        deleted:    build-aux/config.rpath
        deleted:    build-aux/depcomp
        deleted:    build-aux/mdate-sh
        modified:   doc/stamp-1
        modified:   doc/stamp-2
        modified:   doc/stamp-vti
        modified:   doc/version-stnd.texi
        modified:   doc/version-texi2any_api.texi
        modified:   doc/version.texi
        modified:   man/makeinfo.1
        modified:   man/texi2dvi.1
        modified:   man/texindex.1
        modified:   po_document/ca.po
        modified:   tp/Texinfo/XS/TestXS.c

(I do the test inside a git repo to make the difference easily visible).

Would be nice if you could have a look at the issue. Are the deleted / 
re-generated files really needed for building? Feel free to contact for 
questions, please keep me in Cc, I'm not subscribed.

        AWK=awk ./configure \
          --with-external-Text-Unidecode=yes \
          --prefix=/usr \
          --libexecdir='$${prefix}/lib' \
          --infodir='$${prefix}/share/info' --mandir='$${prefix}/share/man'

Many thanks,
  Hilmar
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