On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:32:50 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> Something like this should do it.
> This deletes the man/ directory entirely so
> I have to do that when I check in the patch.
>
> Let me know if this works for you.
Yes, thanks.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> Sam
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> index 867608a..960f402 100644
> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ quiet_cmd_db2man = MAN $@
> @(which xmlto > /dev/null 2>&1) || \
> (echo "*** You need to install xmlto ***"; \
> exit 1)
> + $(Q)mkdir -p $(obj)/man
> $(call cmd,db2man)
> @touch $@
>
> @@ -212,11 +213,7 @@ clean-files := $(DOCBOOKS) \
> $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
> $(C-procfs-example)
>
> -clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS))
> -
> -#man put files in man subdir - traverse down
> -subdir- := man/
> -
> +clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS)) man
>
> # Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony. We keep that
> # information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.
> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 4fb7ea0..0000000
> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
> -# Rules are put in Documentation/DocBook
> -
> -clean-files := *.9.gz *.sgml manpage.links manpage.refs
>
> -
---
~Randy
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