[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Improvements to clean and distclean targets
On 18/01/16 16:57, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 18.01.16 at 17:45, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 18/01/16 16:41, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>>> On 18.01.16 at 17:27, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> * Move '*~' and 'core' into the find rule. >>> I don't understand this part: Where in the build process do such get >>> generated? I'm tempted to instead recommend to just drop those >>> from the rm invocation... >> No idea about 'core' files, but *~ are emacs backup files. > But emacs should clean up after itself; this shouldn't be the job > of our clean rule. Why? the point is to have a one-revision old version of the file to hand. > >> Most clean rules do "rm *.o *.d *~ core" in the local directory, but >> there are some directories in the the public header area which don't get >> recursed into, and therefore missed. > Well - the same holds here than: I'd rather remove those than > extend the bogus use. Bogus is a matter of opinion, and there are a lot of emacs users (myself included) who will disagree with you here. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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