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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Temporary menuconfig file not removed by make mrproper
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:07:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020906180740.A1524@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027901c255b8$d3029360$294b82ce@connecttech.com>; from stuartm@connecttech.com on Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:19:42AM -0400

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:19:42AM -0400, Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> linux/scripts/lxdialog/lxtemp.c was left behind after hitting <ctrl-c>
> during a make menuconfig. clean, distclean and mrproper all failed to
> remove it.
Attached patch fixes this.

> Not sure how this could be handled for the general case; is there a
> standard "this is a temporary file" tag that could be used so that
> clean/mrproper would catch arbitrary temporary files? ie lxtemp~~.c or
> similar.
In the top-level Makefile there is an ugly long list of generated files,
which is removed upon make clean & make mrproper.
I would like to get rid of that one, and build it up when the files are
generated. Later...

	Sam

===== Makefile 1.3 vs edited =====
--- 1.3/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile	Thu Aug 15 21:20:48 2002
+++ edited/Makefile	Fri Sep  6 18:04:11 2002
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@
 	fi
 
 mrproper:
-	@rm -f core $(host-progs) $(lxdialog-objs) ncurses
+	@rm -f core $(host-progs) $(lxdialog-objs) lxtemp.c a.out

      reply	other threads:[~2002-09-06 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-06 15:19 Temporary menuconfig file not removed by make mrproper Stuart MacDonald
2002-09-06 16:07 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]

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