On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-12-26 at 13:43 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [...] >> > >> > Any other make (PHONY) target I don't know? >> > >> >> I fell over "clean-dirs"... >> >> scripts/package/Makefile:93:clean-dirs += $(objtree)/debian/ >> >> ...but did not really understood how it works. >> The main Makefile defines some clean-dirs PHONY#s. >> I can only speculate, someone with more skillz in Makefile handling >> should look at this. > > It looks like this has not worked for a long time. The scripts > directory is not included in the main recursive processes; it seems to > be special-cased for build and not for clean. This is partly deliberate > because clean is supposed to leave 'enough to build external modules'. > It's not obvious to include scripts/packages/ in clean. > [ CCing some more people (submitters to scripts/Makefile.clean) ] Thanks for your reply and confirmation. So, how to fix that issue? Cleanup debian/*tmp dirs within builddeb script for now? Fix that clean-dirs mechanism (or remove it)? These 4 Makefile#s use it... Documentation/DocBook/Makefile Makefile scripts/Makefile.clean scripts/package/Makefile Any help appreciated. - Sedat - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
