Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:33:51 +0100 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: dontdiff has unfixable problems |
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:48:34PM -0500, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > This came up at the kbuild birds-of-a-feather meeting at Linux > World Expo last week. > > Here's my thought for 2.5: all, and I mean *all*, generated files > should match a small *documented* set of patterns. Something on > the order of: > > -X '*.[osi]' -X 'Generated/'
so which are autogenerated files ? only those generated during the build process or things like drivers/char/defkeymap.c as well ?
> This would enable "make clean" to be small and simple. More importantly, > it would allow people to create "dontdiff" files, .cvsignore files, > and any other source management files that they want.
I think it would be more important to allow building outside of the source directory - it seems to work reasonably well for gcc, glibc, and binutils, and it would solve the generated files problem nicely (not that having consistent names wouldn't be nice as well). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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