Note that that should be "make distclean", not "make dist-clean".
LAM uses the GNU Automake system for its Makefiles, so it supports all
standard GNU "make" targets (all, install, uninstall, clean, distclean,
etc.).
But Brian is absolutely correct on his second point: if you're just
building LAM and all you want to so ia return to its original state,
it's probably easiest, safest, and absolutely most guaranteed to just
remove the entire tree and re-extract the tarball. There's no reason
that "make distclean" shouldn't work, but it's a software system, and
all software systems can have corner cases that fail. rm -f shouldn't
suffer from the same problem. ;-)
On Oct 5, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Brian Barrett wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:48 PM, E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
>
>> Which make target do I use
>> to return lam-7.1.1 to it's original state?
>
> make dist-clean will get you close to the original tarball. It has
> some weird corner cases sometimes, so if you really really want to get
> the source tree back to the original shape, restoring from tarballs is
> sometimes your best bet. If you just want to make everything
> recompile without re-running configure, make clean is what you want.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Brian
>
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