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

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sat Dec 27 2014 - 13:52:46 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx> 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. This is partly deliberate
because clean is supposed to leave 'enough to build external modules'.
It's not obvious to include scripts/packages/ in clean.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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