linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools build feature: cleanup feature files on make clean

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Date:   Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:14:54 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools build feature: cleanup feature files on make clean

On 8/27/20 10:53 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> The system for "Auto-detecting system features" located under
> tools/build/ are (currently) used by perf, libbpf and bpftool. It can
> contain stalled feature detection files, which are not cleaned up by
> libbpf and bpftool on make clean (side-note: perf tool is correct).
> 
> Fix this by making the users invoke the make clean target.
> 
> Some details about the changes. The libbpf Makefile already had a
> clean-config target (which seems to be copy-pasted from perf), but this
> target was not "connected" (a make dependency) to clean target. Choose
> not to rename target as someone might be using it. Did change the output
> from "CLEAN config" to "CLEAN feature-detect", to make it more clear
> what happens.
> 
> This is related to the complaint and troubleshooting in link:
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200818122007.2d1cfe2d@carbon/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>

Applied to bpf-next, thanks!