Re: 'Unable to find remote helper'

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2010, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20101108193727.GA6348@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7vzktjprwt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> You diagnosed the problem correctly, but I do not think the patch is
> correct.  Why should the generated file *.autogen be kept around across
> "clean"?

Fair enough. The thought was that most autoconfiscated packages support

	./configure
	make clean
	make
	make install

since "make clean" does not remove the generated Makefile. But the patch was incomplete anyway, since it did not keep config.mak.append around.

> I do understand why we keep "configure" around (it is common for everybody
> once it is generated), though.

Hmm, isn't the usual scheme something like

 - "make clean" undoes the effect of "make"
 - "make distclean" removes all generated files that are not common
   to everyone
 - "make maintainer-clean" removes all generated files