On 2014-12-26 19:46, Ben Hutchings 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. It actually is special-cased for mrproper, which is a subset if distclean. The real problem is that clean-dirs += $(objtree)/debian/ expands to clean-dirs += ./debian/ and scripts/Makefile.clean things that this is relative to the scripts/package directory. Michal -- 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