Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Avoid explicit list of directories in clean target

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:35:42PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > On 31 July 2012 15:19, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> >>> +     find . -name '*.[od]' | xargs rm -f
> >>> + rm -f *.a *.lo $(TOOLS) $(HELPERS-y) qemu-ga TAGS cscope.* *.pod
> >>> *~ */*~
> >>
> >> Shit happens if you somehow manage to create a "mean" file name in the
> >> build tree.  Sure you don't want to -print0 | xargs -0?
> >
> > -print0 isn't POSIX, so I wasn't sure it would be present on all
> > our platforms. (It's probably fairly safe, though...)
> 
> Another option is "-exec rm {} +".

Isn't using 'find' somewhat overkill here really. QEMU only creates
.o and .d files in 2 levels of directory, so sure we can just avoid
find entirely

  rm -f *.[od] */*.[od]

Daniel
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