autoreconf cleanup

Question

I use autoreconf --install to generate configure scripts, etc for my project. Is there a "cleanup" option, or some other easy method to clean up the files generated by autoreconf? With the Makefiles generated by configure, I can do a make distclean, but I would like to further clean my directory by removing the Makefile.in, etc files.

Answer 1

That command is called make maintainer-clean. It will remove nearly everything that autoreconf generates, with a few exceptions. Two notable exceptions are configure and Makefile.in.