On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:25 PM Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Right. If you have a strict rule "I never build the kernel in-tree", your source tree is kept clean. So, tar will never include generated files. But, how would you know if the source tree is really clean? -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
