From: Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean arch/[i386|x86_64] in make mrproper
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:10:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47905F0C.1090708@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801171437.25038.michael-lists@free-electrons.com>
On 01/17/2008 02:37 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>
> Proposed fix: add arch/i386 and arch/x86_84 to the list of
> directories cleaned by "make mrproper"
>
> Cleaner solution: stop creating these symbolic links, but this
> could cause issues with scripts still expecting bzImage in
> arch/i386/boot/bzImage or in arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage.
>
> What do you think? I can submit another patch for the second
> option.
>
> Michael.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> ---
> linux-2.6.24-rc8-git1/Makefile 2008-01-17 09:54:22.000000000
> +0100 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-git1-mrproper-x86/Makefile 2008-01-17
> 10:49:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ .tmp_kallsyms*
> .tmp_version .tmp_vmlinux* .tmp_System.map
>
> # Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper' -MRPROPER_DIRS
> += include/config include2 usr/include +MRPROPER_DIRS +=
> include/config include2 usr/include arch/i386 arch/x86_64
> MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old include/asm .version
> .old_version \ include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h
> \ include/linux/utsrelease.h \
>
The problem is still there in 2.6.24-rc8-git2. In my opinion, it's a
significant bug in the kernel build system that "make mrproper" and
"make distclean" don't remove all generated files. 2.6.24 shoudn't
ship with this bug.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Michael.
--
Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons
Free Embedded Linux Training Materials
on http://free-electrons.com/training
(More than 1500 pages!)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-17 13:37 [PATCH] x86: clean arch/[i386|x86_64] in make mrproper Michael Opdenacker
2008-01-18 8:10 ` Michael Opdenacker [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=47905F0C.1090708@free-electrons.com \
--to=michael-lists@free-electrons.com \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox