Fwd: generic make clean problem?

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Thursday 30 January 2003 18:18 schrieb Sebastian Trueg:
> Hy,
>
> so who am I to ask about the admin stuff?
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
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> Subject: Re: [Kde-extra-gear] Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: debian-Verzeichnis im CVS
> möglich?]
> Date: Thursday 30 January 2003 14:14
> From: Klas Kalass <klas.kalass at gmx.de>
> To: kde-extra-gear at mail.kde.org
>
> Am Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2003 13:20 schrieb Sebastian Trueg:
> > don't the Makefiles for the i18n stuff get generated by the cvsExtract
> > script?
>
> Yes, well not directly: The Makefile are generated by configure.
> I think trying to fix the clean target goes pretty deep into automake
> stuff, for which I am not qualified enough. I just tried and the same
> happens with the i18n files of the other modules too. So it is probably a
> problem in the admin directory. Please file a bugreport (but don't ask me
> ;) to whoever maintains the admin dir.
>
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > die 'clean' regel uebersieht einige .pmo Dateien. Das stoert etwas, wenn
> > man unter debian mittel dpkg-buildpackage arbeitet. Man muss dann diese
> > pmo's erst immer selber loeschen (ich bin faul...)
>
> I guess he means .gmo files?
>

This is no bug. make clean only removes stuff that is supposed to be compiled 
by the user. .gmo files aren't! If you want to remove them, try make 
maintainer-clean

Greetings, Stephan