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Re: 'Unable to find remote helper'

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2010, 22:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20101104224010.GA18693@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<F815EC90C848458886E418CB6DE1DA8B@ssipboulton>
Hi Philip,
Philip Boulton wrote:
> My git build commands are:
> ./configure
> gmake clean && gmake all
> gmake install
The "gmake clean" undoes the effect of "./configure".
Hope that helps.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d3dcfb1..c693652 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ dist-doc:
 ### Cleaning rules
 
 distclean: clean
-	$(RM) configure
+	$(RM) configure config.mak.autogen
 
 clean:
 	$(RM) *.o block-sha1/*.o ppc/*.o compat/*.o compat/*/*.o xdiff/*.o vcs-svn/*.o \
@@ -2240,7 +2240,7 @@ clean:
 	$(RM) -r $(dep_dirs)
 	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
 	$(RM) -r autom4te.cache
-	$(RM) config.log config.mak.autogen config.mak.append config.status config.cache
+	$(RM) config.log config.mak.append config.status config.cache
 	$(RM) -r $(GIT_TARNAME) .doc-tmp-dir
 	$(RM) $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.tar.gz
 	$(RM) $(htmldocs).tar.gz $(manpages).tar.gz
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