Bug #17320: Is 'make realclean' supposed to work?

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/fa3670e6e48a8553ad1f37bbfbd112911da497d1/common.mk#L649

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Sorry, hit the enter. Prematurealy.

The DeveloperHowto 1 mentions make realclean to remove everything pregenerated. Trying that, it does not work:

$ make realclean
make: *** No rule to make target 'realclean'.  Stop.

Checking the source code 2, there is realclean:: and I wonder, is the additional colon just type? Otherwise I am not sure how to execute the target ...

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Of course configure must be execute prior trying to run make something. Oh my. Sorry for the noise.