[Python-Dev] Setup.local is getting zapped

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:04:08 -0600 (CST)


    Michael> Eh?  Surely "make distclean" is what you invoke before you tar
    Michael> up the src directory of a release, and so certainly should
    Michael> remove Setup.local.

Yeah, I realize that now.  I should probably have been executing make
clobber.

    Michael> This still tends to leave .pycs in Lib if you run make test, so
    Michael> I tend to use lndir to acheive a similar effect.

Make distclean doesn't remove the pyc's or Emacs backup files.  Those
omissions seem to be a bug.  Makefile-meister Neal?

Skip