Re: [PATCH] tools build feature: cleanup feature files on make clean

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 8/27/20 10:53 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> The system for "Auto-detecting system features" located under
> tools/build/ are (currently) used by perf, libbpf and bpftool. It can
> contain stalled feature detection files, which are not cleaned up by
> libbpf and bpftool on make clean (side-note: perf tool is correct).
>
> Fix this by making the users invoke the make clean target.
>
> Some details about the changes. The libbpf Makefile already had a
> clean-config target (which seems to be copy-pasted from perf), but this
> target was not "connected" (a make dependency) to clean target. Choose
> not to rename target as someone might be using it. Did change the output
> from "CLEAN config" to "CLEAN feature-detect", to make it more clear
> what happens.
>
> This is related to the complaint and troubleshooting in link:
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200818122007.2d1cfe2d@carbon/
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to bpf-next, thanks!