From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Raymond <cerbere@gmail.com>,
qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: distclean should clean all possible targets
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:20:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E32976D.5090605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3023BA.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 07/27/2011 04:42 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
>> "Delete all files in the current directory (or created by this
>> makefile) that are created by configuring or building the program. If
>> you have unpacked the source and built the program without creating
>> any other files, ‘make distclean’ should leave only the files that
>> were in the distribution. However, there is no need to delete parent
>> directories that were created with ‘mkdir -p’, since they could have
>> existed anyway. "
>>
>> Now, if everyone agrees that "distclean" is fine as it is, I won't
>> insist on anything.
>
> I'm with you in that distclean to me reads as "make clean for
> re-distribution". i.e. a pristine source tree.
It should be like that _as long as you rerun make distclean before every
reconfiguration_.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-29 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 3:56 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Minor makefile fixes Alexandre Raymond
2011-07-26 3:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: distclean should clean all possible targets Alexandre Raymond
2011-07-26 6:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-26 13:51 ` Alexandre Raymond
2011-07-27 5:57 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-27 13:55 ` Alexandre Raymond
2011-07-27 14:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Michael Roth
2011-07-29 11:20 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-07-26 3:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: delete config.log in distclean Alexandre Raymond
2011-07-29 11:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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