[PATCH 2/3] kbuild: make distclean remove tag files in sub-directories

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue May 04 2021 - 06:11:32 EST


'make tags' and friends create tag files in the top directory, but
people may manually create tag files in sub-directories.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Makefile | 9 ++-------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 560408808c33..2cbf68dc40b7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1511,9 +1511,6 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += include/config include/generated \
signing_key.x509.signer vmlinux-gdb.py \
*.spec

-# Directories & files removed with 'make distclean'
-DISTCLEAN_FILES += tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS
-
# clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules
#
clean: rm-files := $(CLEAN_FILES)
@@ -1540,16 +1537,14 @@ mrproper: clean $(mrproper-dirs)

# distclean
#
-distclean: rm-files := $(wildcard $(DISTCLEAN_FILES))
-
PHONY += distclean

distclean: mrproper
- $(call cmd,rmfiles)
@find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
\( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
-o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '*%' \
- -o -name 'core' \) \
+ -o -name 'core' -o -name tags -o -name TAGS -o -name 'cscope*' \
+ -o -name GPATH -o -name GRTAGS -o -name GSYMS -o -name GTAGS \) \
-type f -print | xargs rm -f


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2.27.0