Re: make clean for DocBook

[Randy Dunlap]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:41:42 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:06:58AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Hi Sam,
> > 
> > 'make clean' doesn't seem to descend into Documentation/DocBook/.
> > At least 'make V=1 clean' doesn't show me any references in DocBook.
> > 
> > I guess that this is because DocBook doesn't have anything that
> > qualifies in obj-y/m/n and subdir-y/m/n.  (?)
> 
> Documentation/ is handled explicit i top-level Makefile:
> 
> mrproper-dirs      := $(addprefix _mrproper_,Documentation/DocBook scripts)
> 
> PHONY += $(mrproper-dirs) mrproper archmrproper
> $(mrproper-dirs):
>         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(patsubst _mrproper_%,%,$@)
> 
> 
> And we will visit DocBook with mrproper - but not clean.
> I have no stron opinion when to delete generated files in DocBook.

OK, that's fine, thanks for the info...
but trying 'make mrproper' gives me:

make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=Documentation/DocBook
make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=Documentation/DocBook/man/
make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
make[2]: *** [__clean] Error 127
make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/man/] Error 2
make: *** [_mrproper_Documentation/DocBook] Error 2

DocBook/man/ contains about 2000 files.
Is there some way to have scripts/Makefile.clean just do
	rm -rf Documentation/DocBook/man/
?  or some other solution?


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~Randy
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