[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH]config.log was lost

[Måns Rullgård]

Michel Bardiaux said:
> r5581 did this (rationale: "simplify")
>
> -	rm -f .depend config.mak config.h version.h *.pc config.err config.log
> +	rm -f .depend version.h config.* *.pc
>
> Result: make distclean removes config.log, which was supposed to survive
> since it helps one for the next configure.

The distclean target is usually expected to put the tree back to a pristine state,
leaving no generated files behind.  Personally, I never trust such schemes, and
build in a separate directory that I can simply delete when I'm done with it.

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