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<h2><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Checking+Asterisk+Requirements?focusedCommentId=8126996#comment-8126996">Checking Asterisk Requirements</a></h2>
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<b>comment added</b> by <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/~albro">Albro Moser</a>
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<p>First there is no such thing as an innocent question. Only a fool presumes he/she knows everything.<br/>
One good time to run "make distclean" is when you have run the "make" command to compile your sources.<br/>
If you had a failure in the process and it crapped out, you would run "make distclean". The "make distclean" command erases all the files created by "./configure" and "make". Running "make clean" would remove the files created by "make" only, So "make distclean" removes the files created by "./configure" and "make". <br/>
I hope this helps.</p>
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<strong>In reply to a comment by <a href="/wiki/display/~howwhi"
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>Howard White</a>:</strong><br/>
<p>Innocent newbie question. Would one run "make distclean" before or after "./configure" ?? I realize someone with experience would know when or why "make distclean" would be in order.</p>
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