I use autoreconf --install to generate configure scripts, etc for my project. Is there a "cleanup" option, or some other easy method to clean up the files generated by autoreconf? With the Makefiles generated by configure, I can do a make distclean, but I would like to further clean my directory by removing the Makefile.in, etc files.
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That command is called make maintainer-clean. It will remove nearly everything that autoreconf generates, with a few exceptions. Two notable exceptions are configure and Makefile.in.
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2http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html describes the differences between `distclean` and `mainainer-clean`. In my project, they behave exactly the same, although in general maintainer-clean removes a superset of distclean. Both leave Makefile.in, configure, config.h.in, aclocal.m4, files generated in m4/, and files generated in build-aux. – Chris Oct 10 '12 at 21:35
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There are no automatic rules to delete .in fiules and configure.
In autotools documentatiion it is strongly recommended to delete nothing that is needed to run ./configure && make.
You can define your own clean rules which will delete these files, but then au are forced to run the complete toolchain to create a new built.
