Re: [PATCH] docs: Makefile: Fix make cleandocs by deleting generated .rst files

[Breno Leitao]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 03:52:08PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > The script tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py (YNL_TOOL) generates several .rst
> > files (YNL_INDEX, YNL_RST_FILES) in Documentation/networking/netlink_spec
> > (YNL_RST_DIR) which are not deleted by make cleandocs.
> >
> > Fix make cleandocs by deleting the generated .rst files.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/Makefile | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> > index 3885bbe260eb..4479910166fc 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/Makefile
> > +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
> > @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ refcheckdocs:
> >  	$(Q)cd $(srctree);scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
> >  
> >  cleandocs:
> > +	$(Q)rm -f $(YNL_INDEX) $(YNL_RST_FILES)

I haven't check but I _think_ that just deleting $(YNL_INDEX) is enough
here, since $(YNL_INDEX) depends on $(YNL_RST_FILES).

> >  	$(Q)rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)
> >  	$(Q)$(MAKE) BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) $(build)=Documentation/userspace-api/media clean
> 
> So this seems worth doing ... except that there has been talk about not
> depositing those files into the source tree in the first place.  Adding
> Vegard and Breno to see if they have any thoughts on the matter...

Agree. This is definitely worth doing.