Re: make clean for DocBook

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 15:32:28 EST


> >
> >
> > 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.

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

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