deleted by @code{distclean}, plus more: C source files produced by
Bison, tags tables, Info files, and so on.
-The reason we say ``almost everything'' is that @samp{make
-maintainer-clean} should not delete @file{configure} even if
-@file{configure} can be remade using a rule in the Makefile. More
-generally, @samp{make maintainer-clean} should not delete anything that
-needs to exist in order to run @file{configure} and then begin to build
-the program. This is the only exception; @code{maintainer-clean} should
+The reason we say ``almost everything'' is that running the command
+@samp{make maintainer-clean} should not delete @file{configure} even if
+it can be remade using a rule in the Makefile. More generally,
+@samp{make maintainer-clean} should not delete anything that needs to
+exist in order to run @file{configure} and then begin to build the
+program. This is the only exception; @code{maintainer-clean} should
delete everything else that can be rebuilt.
The @samp{maintainer-clean} is intended to be used by a maintainer of
take care to make them easy to reconstruct. If you find you need to
unpack the full distribution again, don't blame us.
-To help make users aware of this, the commands for
-@code{maintainer-clean} should start with these two:
+To help make users aware of this, the commands for the special
+@code{maintainer-clean} target should start with these two:
-@example
-@@echo "This command is intended for maintainers to use;"
-@@echo "it deletes files that may require special tools to rebuild."
-@end example
+@smallexample
+@@echo "This command is intended for maintainers to use; it"
+@@echo "deletes files that may require special tools to rebuild."
+@end smallexample
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