Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4

Mike Fedyk
2003-09-01T21:47:36Z

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:07:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > dontdiff must know about many things that 'make mrproper' need not care
> > about:
> >
> > files with ".bak" suffix
> > files with "~" suffix
> > BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, SCCS directories
>
> make mrproper already cares about all those.
> Fragments from top-level Makefile:
>
> RCS_FIND_IGNORE := \( -name SCCS -o -name BitKeeper -o -name .svn -o -name CVS \) -prune -o
>
> mrproper:
> @find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
> \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
> -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \
> -o -name '.*.rej' -o -size 0 \
> -o -name '*%' -o -name '.*.cmd' -o -name 'core' \) \
> -type f -print | xargs rm -f
> $(call cmd,mrproper)
>

But dontdiff is a list of files that must be skipped, not a regex, right?
Then dontdiff will be useless until a build has been done on that kernel tree.