Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] rules/mak: make clean should blow away timestamp files

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:28:46AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:57:34PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Using a global pattern makes it easier to clean out
> > old generated files.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  rules.mak | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
> > index d11a5b4..edc2552 100644
> > --- a/rules.mak
> > +++ b/rules.mak
> > @@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ config-%.h: config-%.h-timestamp
> >  config-%.h-timestamp: config-%.mak
> >  	$(call quiet-command, sh $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/create_config < $< > $@, "  GEN   $(TARGET_DIR)config-$*.h")
> >  
> > +.PHONY: clean-timestamp
> > +clean-timestamp:
> > +	rm -f *.timestamp
> 
> Timestamp files also live in subdirectories and I think we're slowly
> moving away from recursive make, so this may not clean all timestamp
> files.
> 
> Stefan

Yes but it helps whenever we include rules.mak which is in most places.

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MST