[Python-Dev] make clean and make clobber semantics

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:18:08 -0700


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > One more thing Guido, can you touch Include/graminit.h and
> > Python/graminit.c before making the tarball?  
> 
> Why?

So that those files are not rebuilt.  If the source directory is
read-only then make will fail to build those files.  Its a very
minor issue.

  Neil