Tk Source Code

make distclean errors out the second time:

francois@TM:~/Documents/tcltk/fossil/tk/unix$ make distclean
rm -f *.a *.o libtk* core errs *~ \#* TAGS *.E a.out \
        errors wish tktest lib.exp Tk *.rsrc
rm -rf Makefile config.status config.cache config.log tkConfig.sh \
        tkConfig.h *.plist Tk.framework tk.pc
francois@TM:~/Documents/tcltk/fossil/tk/unix$ make distclean
make: *** No rule to make target 'distclean'. Arrêt.
francois@TM:~/Documents/tcltk/fossil/tk/unix$ 

Is this really expected? At least the error message looks unexpected.

In contrast, repeated incantations of "make clean" work well:

francois@TM:~/Documents/tcltk/fossil/tk/unix$ make clean
rm -f *.a *.o libtk* core errs *~ \#* TAGS *.E a.out \
        errors wish tktest lib.exp Tk *.rsrc
francois@TM:~/Documents/tcltk/fossil/tk/unix$ make clean
rm -f *.a *.o libtk* core errs *~ \#* TAGS *.E a.out \
        errors wish tktest lib.exp Tk *.rsrc
francois@TM:~/Documents/tcltk/fossil/tk/unix$

If you will notice, 'make distclean' removes 'Makefile', as 
it is re-created by configure. 

I think this is a bit unusual.  
It's been a while since I have been building many packages manually (and
I've worked with hundreds), and I can't really recall that many packages
actually remove the Makefile, even when there is a Makefile.in.

It would be ideal to keep the Makefile around if possible so that 
'make distclean' would always work.  It is a bit annoying.