linux-kernel - Re: deb-pkg: Cleaning of debian/*tmp files when running 'make (dist)clean'

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Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:16:34 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	maximilian attems <max@...o.at>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: deb-pkg: Cleaning of debian/*tmp files when running 'make (dist)clean'

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
> 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@...il.com> 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 is special-cased for mrproper and thus distclean:
>
>   mrproper-dirs      := $(addprefix _mrproper_,Documentation/DocBook
> scripts)
>
> The problem is that
>
>   clean-dirs += $(objtree)/debian/
>
> results in
>
>   clean-dirs += ./debian/
>
> and scripts/Makefile.clean treats it as relative to scripts/package.
>

Thanks for your reply.

IIRC I looked through some commits touching this area.
>From your description, is the simplification ("kbuild: simplify build,
clean, modbuiltin shorthands") in [1] the cause for this?

[ I haven't tried to revert it, returned home today, still looking
through my inbox :-). ]

- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/scripts/Makefile.clean?id=5b2389b45d1a9c12b9f4b976e38c36264bfc42f5
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