linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 01/12] kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git

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Message-ID: <251124e4-64e1-385d-ea7f-c0cc31851307@prevas.dk>
Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:24:47 +0100
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/12] kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git

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