From: James Chargin <jimccrown@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] "make clean" not traversing into board-specific directories?
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:41:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5736582F.5080202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5Dh_o=LVepBvEhq_rxZtSwUQd=QxD1nxtqe5vEDND2P7g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On 05/13/2016 01:50 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi J?rg,
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:57 PM,
> <Joerg.Scheuermann@continental-corporation.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using u-boot 2015.04 and have a mechanism implemented in the
>> board-specific Makefile for our board,
>> which uses xsltproc to generate header-files from xml input files - this
>> part is working by now.
>>
>> what is still not working is the removal of those generated files upon
>> calling "make clean",
>> and after some initial inspection I found out, that the board-specific
>> directories are completely ignored when calling "make clean"!
>>
>> - why is that the case, can't those directories not also be visited when
>> cleaning things up?
>
> It works fine for me.
>
> I built mx7dsabresd_defconfig with mainline U-boot and after that I see:
>
> ls board/freescale/mx7dsabresd/
> built-in.o imximage.cfg.cfgtmp MAINTAINERS mx7dsabresd.c
> mx7dsabresd.o
> imximage.cfg Kconfig Makefile mx7dsabresd.su
>
> Then after a 'make clean'
>
> ls board/freescale/mx7dsabresd/
> imximage.cfg Kconfig MAINTAINERS Makefile mx7dsabresd.c
>
> ,which worked as expected.
In March of 2015, I was told that the board directories are not visited
for "make clean". Quoting Mr. Masahiro Yamada
>
> CLEAN_FILES is only available at the top-level Makefile.
>
> Add
> CLEAN_FILES += board/my_board/test.img
> to the top-level Makefile, and it should work.
>
>
>> clean-files += test.img
>> clean-files := test.img
>
> These are correct in sub-directory Makefiles in general,
> but unfortunately, "make clean" does not descend into board/ directory
> for some reason.
>
> So, they do not work in board/*/Makefile
>
This was quite a while ago, so changes may have been made for more
recent releases. But at one time (v2014.07), "make clean" did not visit
board directories.
Regards,
--
Jim Chargin
AJA Video Systems jimc at aja.com
(530) 271-3334 http://www.aja.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-13 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 16:57 [U-Boot] "make clean" not traversing into board-specific directories? Joerg.Scheuermann at continental-corporation.com
2016-05-13 20:50 ` Fabio Estevam
2016-05-13 22:41 ` James Chargin [this message]
2016-05-14 9:10 ` Masahiro Yamada
2016-05-18 9:06 ` Joerg.Scheuermann at continental-corporation.com
2016-05-18 15:08 ` James Chargin
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