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 What Gets Cleaned
 *****************
 
    The GNU Makefile Standards specify a number of different clean rules.
 See  Standard Targets for Users (standards)Standard Targets.
 
    Generally the files that can be cleaned are determined automatically
 by Automake.  Of course, Automake also recognizes some variables that
 can be defined to specify additional files to clean.  These variables
 are `MOSTLYCLEANFILES', `CLEANFILES', `DISTCLEANFILES', and
 `MAINTAINERCLEANFILES'.
 
    As the GNU Standards aren't always explicit as to which files should
 be removed by which target, we've adopted a heuristic which we believe
 was first formulated by Franc,ois Pinard:
 
    * If `make' built it, and it is commonly something that one would
      want to rebuild (for instance, a `.o' file), then `mostlyclean'
      should delete it.
 
    * Otherwise, if `make' built it, then `clean' should delete it.
 
    * If `configure' built it, then `distclean' should delete it
 
    * If the maintainer built it, then `maintainer-clean' should delete
      it.
 
    We recommend that you follow this same set of heuristics in your
 `Makefile.am'.
 

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