Autotools: how to cleanup files created by “./configure” in lighttpd project?

Question

I\'m trying out lighttpd for an embedded Linux project. I got the latest source package and started writing a master Makefile encapsulating all configure, compile,

Answer 1

In addition to Benjamin Bannier's answer, the generated files names may be listed in .gitignore file so that they are ignored, not tracked with git and don't irritate and bother when run git status. You can't remove these files with git clean. In this case I personally use rm -rf * ; git checkout . command.

But don't use that if you have other ignored files which you don't want to be removed!