Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Patches to avoid use of make recursion in the 'src/' subdir

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> And here's one more, so I don't forget:
>
>   rm -rf src/.deps
>   rm -f Makefile
>   ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
>   ./man/arch.1
>   ./man/hostname.1
>   make[1]: *** [distcleancheck] Error 1
>   make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/h/j/w/co/cu/coreutils-8.19.68-ea804-dirty/_build'
>   make: *** [distcheck] Error 1

Ahh... that looked familiar once I got into it.
I fixed a similar problem when converting cppi:

diff --git a/man/local.mk b/man/local.mk
index 80519af..a52f5af 100644
--- a/man/local.mk
+++ b/man/local.mk
@@ -186,3 +186,8 @@ $(MAN): $(top_srcdir)/src/system.h
          && rm -rf $$t                                                 \
          && chmod -w $@-t                                              \
          && mv $@-t $@
+
+# This is a kludge to remove man/*.1 from a non-srcdir build.
+distclean-local:
+       test 'x$(srcdir)' = 'x$(builddir)' \
+         || rm -f $(dist_man1_MANS) $(extra_man_1)