Re: [PATCH v2] perf: Fix clean error

[Lei YU]

Just find out that da15fc2fa9c07b23db8f5e479bd8a9f0d741ca07 (introduced in
v4.19-rc1) already fixes the issue by specifying -j1 on make clean.
So this commit is not needed anymore, though I think it does fix the root
cause.

But if we do want parallel clean, we could revert that and merge this commit.

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 10:50 AM Lei YU <mine260309@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When make perf with -O, it gets error when make clean with below log:
>
>  $ make -C tools/perf O=<output/dir> # OK
>  $ make -C tools/perf O=<output/dir> clean # Got below error
>
>     find: cannot delete â<output/dir>/builtin-script.oâ: No such file or directory
>     find: cannot delete â<output/dir>/.subcmd-config.o.cmdâ: No such file or directory
>     ...
>     Makefile:38: recipe for target 'clean' failed
>     make[2]: *** [clean] Error 1
>     make[1]: *** [fixdep-clean] Error 2
>     Makefile:90: recipe for target 'clean' failed
>     make: *** [clean] Error 2
>
> It happens because both fixdep-clean and libsubcmd-clean will delete
> files by `find`, where libsubcmd-clean uses `| xargs $(RM)` and
> fixdep-clean uses `-delete`.
> When a file is find by fixdep-clean, and tries to delete it, it's found
> that the file does not exist because it is deleted by libsubcmd-clean.
>
> This commit changes the delete method of fixdep-clean to use
> `| xargs $(RM)` as well, where RM is defined as `rm -f` so it does not
> return error when file does not exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lei YU <mine260309@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> v2: Fix missing "make clean" in commit message
> ---
>  tools/build/Makefile | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile b/tools/build/Makefile
> index 5edf65e..ae38db2 100644
> --- a/tools/build/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/build/Makefile
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ $(call allow-override,LD,$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld)
>  HOSTCC ?= gcc
>  HOSTLD ?= ld
>  HOSTAR ?= ar
> +RM = rm -f
>
>  export HOSTCC HOSTLD HOSTAR
>
> @@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ all: $(OUTPUT)fixdep
>
>  clean:
>         $(call QUIET_CLEAN, fixdep)
> -       $(Q)find $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),.) -name '*.o' -delete -o -name '\.*.cmd' -delete -o -name '\.*.d' -delete
> +       $(Q)find $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),.) -name '*.o' -o -name '\.*.cmd' -o -name '\.*.d' | xargs $(RM)
>         $(Q)rm -f $(OUTPUT)fixdep
>
>  $(OUTPUT)fixdep-in.o: FORCE
> --
> 2.7.4
>