On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:09:46AM -0400, Johan A. van Zanten wrote:
... 
> brahma:/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/grep $ ls -FC
> CVS/            dgettext.o      gettext.o       libintl.h       search.o
> Makefile        egrep/          grep*           loadmsgcat.o    stpcpy.o
> bindtextdom.o   explodename.o   grep.o          localealias.o   textdomain.o
> common/         fgrep/          grepmat.o       obj/
> config.h        finddomain.o    intl-compat.o   obstack.o
> dcgettext.o     getopt.o        kwset.o         regex.o
> dfa.o           getopt1.o       l10nflist.o     savedir.o

I think the clue is that obj/ directory.. If you remove it, then
make cleandir
will remove those .o files, then
make obj
will put the obj/ directory back... (or link, whatever)

Cheers,

Patrick