[Python-Dev] make clean and make clobber semantics

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:27:09PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Another consequence is that after "make clobber" you have to rerun the
> configure script (or say "make recheck").  This takes almost as long
> as the rest of the build...

So don't do that. Run 'config.status' instead: it'll recreate your config
files (Makefile.pre, config.h, Setup.config) from cached info. It won't
rebuild everything, but it rebuilds config.h, which is what 'make clobber'
removes that breaks building.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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