On 15/02/2023 02.20, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > In short, the motivation of this commit is to build a source package > without cleaning the source tree. > > The deb-pkg and (src)rpm-pkg targets first run 'make clean' before > creating a source tarball. Otherwise build artifacts such as *.o, > *.a, etc. would be included in the tarball. Yet, the tarball ends up > containing several garbage files since 'make clean' does not clean > everything. > > Cleaning the tree every time is annoying since it makes the incremental > build impossible. It is desirable to create a source tarball without > cleaning the tree. > > In fact, there are some ways to achieve this. > The easiest solution is 'git archive'. Eh, no, the easiest solution is to just don't build in-tree? Can you explain why 'make O=/over/there' isn't sufficient for whatever it is you really want to do here? Rasmus
