From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: allow application to override clean Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:52:01 +0100 Message-ID: <2643675.CbzNhuDmeJ@xps13> References: <1421993948-24785-1-git-send-email-stephen@networkplumber.org> <54C8C15B.7020407@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org, Stephen Hemminger To: stephen-OTpzqLSitTUnbdJkjeBofR2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54C8C15B.7020407-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" Hi Stephen, 2015-01-28 12:00, Olivier MATZ: > Hi Stephen, > > On 01/23/2015 07:19 AM, stephen-OTpzqLSitTUnbdJkjeBofR2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org wrote: > > From: Stephen Hemminger > > > > In some cases application may want to have additional rules > > for clean. This can be handled by allowing the double colon > > form of rule. > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Double_002dColon.html > > There is already a way to do that in dpdk makefiles: you can add > the following code in your application Makefile, before the line > that includes $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.app.mk: > > POSTCLEAN += my_clean > > .PHONY: my_clean > my_clean: > @echo executed after clean Does it fit with your needs? Should we revert your patch? Double-colon rules were avoided in DPDK. "Double-colon rules are somewhat obscure and not often very useful" -- Thomas