[PATCH] Fix 'make distclean' to clean generated docs
Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott
pj+busybox-ml at pehjota.net
Wed Mar 19 06:06:27 UTC 2014
On 2014-03-19 01:28, jody at jodybruchon.com wrote:
> Running 'make distclean' does not remove various generated files in the "docs"
> directory. This has frustrated me when trying to make patches against BusyBox,
> as I cannot clean the folders properly without manually deleting files. The
> attached patch adds these generated docs to the "make distclean" list to be
> removed, thus truly cleaning to a pristine distribution state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jody Bruchon <jody at jodybruchon.com>
Git can help you ignore such files (thanks to docs/.gitignore) and make
patches (either with just `git diff` or by committing changes in a
branch and generating mail messages with `git format-patch`).
> diff -Naurw a/Makefile b/Makefile
> --- a/Makefile 2014-01-19 21:39:28.000000000 -0500
> +++ b/Makefile 2014-03-19 01:02:02.529223008 -0400
> @@ -973,6 +973,11 @@
> include/applets.h \
> include/usage.h \
> applets/usage \
> + docs/BusyBox.html
> + docs/BusyBox.txt
> + docs/busybox.1
> + docs/busybox.net/BusyBox.html
> + docs/busybox.pod
> .kernelrelease Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope* \
> busybox_old
You need to escape the newline characters in the added lines with "\".
With that fix, the patch looks fine to me for what that's worth.
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Patrick "P. J." McDermott
http://www.pehjota.net/
Lead Developer, ProteanOS
http://www.proteanos.com/
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