What are the differences between make clean, make clobber, make distclean, make mrproper and make realclean?
Trying to form my own answer based on some research. I think the approximate order of severity is; mostlyclean, clean, maintainer-clean, mrproper, distclean and finally clobber (which is combined distclean and uninstall). make clean make clean is the most basic level. It cleans up most generated files but not anything that records configuration. GNU Make … Read more