[Bug 39596] New: "make distclean" does not work

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39596

Bug ID: 39596
           Summary: "make distclean" does not work
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.55
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

I wanted to build wine from git source as out-of-tree build. But configure
says:

checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
configure: error: you are building out of the source tree, but the source tree
contains object files.
You need to run 'make distclean' in the source tree first.

But running "make distclean" inside git tree fails:

$ make distclean
make: *** No rule to make target 'Make.vars.in', needed by 'Makefile'.  Stop.

IIRC this used to work. Work arounded in git tree by:
$ rm -rf *
$ git checkout -f wine-1.7.55