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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Improvements to clean and distclean targets



>>> 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.

> 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.

Jan


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