Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: Make the compile output cleaner V2

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:11:28PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> It seems completely spurious to me - normal practice is to blow away
> the config on a distclean, not a plain clean. And seeing as the
> patch is about removing noise during the normal build, I figured
> this qualified as a bug causing noise.
> 
> I can separate it out into another patch, but I'd really prefer that
> make clean doesn't result in running configure again. Especially
> considering the build dependencies are very broken so the only way
> to guarantee a build catches all changes is to do 'make clean;
> make'.

Looking at various other packages it seems like configure output
usually survives make clean indeed.  With that I agree with the change,
but it really should be a separate patch.


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

For this one without that change, and I'll also approve the make clean
change when you send it.