external modules make clean doesn't do much

external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Duncan Sands]

make clean for an external module only seems to clean
.tmp_versions:

$ make clean
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-rc1/build M=`pwd` clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
  CLEAN   /home/duncan/SpeedTouch/.tmp_versions
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
$

This leaves all the .o etc files which doesn't sound right...

All the best,

Duncan.

Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> make clean for an external module only seems to clean
> .tmp_versions:
> 
> $ make clean
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-rc1/build M=`pwd` clean
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
>   CLEAN   /home/duncan/SpeedTouch/.tmp_versions
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
> $
> 
> This leaves all the .o etc files which doesn't sound right...
Nope - let me try.

sam@mars rtl8180 $ ls *o
built-in.o   r8180_if.o        rtl8180.ko     rtl8180.o
priv_part.o  r8180_pci_init.o  rtl8180.mod.o  usercopy.o
sam@mars rtl8180 $ make -C ~/bk/kbuild M=$PWD clean
make: Entering directory `/home/sam/bk/kbuild'
  CLEAN   /home/sam/bk/external/rtl8180/.tmp_versions
make: Leaving directory `/home/sam/bk/kbuild'
sam@mars rtl8180 $ ls *o
ls: *o: No such file or directory
sam@mars rtl8180 $ cat Makefile
obj-m           := rtl8180.o
rtl8180-y       += r8180_if.o r8180_pci_init.o usercopy.o
rtl8180-y       += priv_part.o
  

Looks to be OK here.
Please let me see the Makefile you use for SpeedTouch

	Sam

Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Duncan Sands]

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 19:01, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > make clean for an external module only seems to clean
> > .tmp_versions:
> > 
> > $ make clean
> > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-rc1/build M=`pwd` clean
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
> >   CLEAN   /home/duncan/SpeedTouch/.tmp_versions
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
> > $
> > 
> > This leaves all the .o etc files which doesn't sound right...
> Nope - let me try.
> 
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ ls *o
> built-in.o   r8180_if.o        rtl8180.ko     rtl8180.o
> priv_part.o  r8180_pci_init.o  rtl8180.mod.o  usercopy.o
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ make -C ~/bk/kbuild M=$PWD clean
> make: Entering directory `/home/sam/bk/kbuild'
>   CLEAN   /home/sam/bk/external/rtl8180/.tmp_versions
> make: Leaving directory `/home/sam/bk/kbuild'
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ ls *o
> ls: *o: No such file or directory
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ cat Makefile
> obj-m           := rtl8180.o
> rtl8180-y       += r8180_if.o r8180_pci_init.o usercopy.o
> rtl8180-y       += priv_part.o
>   
> 
> Looks to be OK here.
> Please let me see the Makefile you use for SpeedTouch

Hi Sam, thanks for looking into this.  Here it is:

KERNELDIR  := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build

obj-m := speedtch.o

all clean help modules modules_install:
	$(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) $(filter-out all,$(MAKECMDGOALS))

install:
	$(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install

Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Sam, I found out what was triggering the problem: symbolic links.
The setup was like this:

directory A contains Makefile, source code etc.
B is a symbolic link to A.
If I change directory into A, then "make clean" works fine.
If I change directory into B, then "make clean" only cleans .tmp_versions.

Strange but true...

All the best,

Duncan.

Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Duncan Sands]

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 19:01, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > make clean for an external module only seems to clean
> > .tmp_versions:
> > 
> > $ make clean
> > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-rc1/build M=`pwd` clean
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
> >   CLEAN   /home/duncan/SpeedTouch/.tmp_versions
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/duncan/Linux/linux-2.5'
> > $
> > 
> > This leaves all the .o etc files which doesn't sound right...
> Nope - let me try.
> 
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ ls *o
> built-in.o   r8180_if.o        rtl8180.ko     rtl8180.o
> priv_part.o  r8180_pci_init.o  rtl8180.mod.o  usercopy.o
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ make -C ~/bk/kbuild M=$PWD clean
> make: Entering directory `/home/sam/bk/kbuild'
>   CLEAN   /home/sam/bk/external/rtl8180/.tmp_versions
> make: Leaving directory `/home/sam/bk/kbuild'
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ ls *o
> ls: *o: No such file or directory
> sam@mars rtl8180 $ cat Makefile
> obj-m           := rtl8180.o
> rtl8180-y       += r8180_if.o r8180_pci_init.o usercopy.o
> rtl8180-y       += priv_part.o
>   
> 
> Looks to be OK here.
> Please let me see the Makefile you use for SpeedTouch

Hi Sam, as I mentioned in another mail, if you get to your
current working directory via a symlink, then clean doesn't
work properly (this was the problem I hit).  Did you work out
what's going on?

Thanks for your help,

Duncan.

Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Sam Ravnborg]

>
> Hi Sam, as I mentioned in another mail, if you get to your
> current working directory via a symlink, then clean doesn't
> work properly (this was the problem I hit).  Did you work out
> what's going on?

Hi Duncan.
I have not looked into this yet, but your response is saved in my
todo list.
Being overloaded (read: no time for Linux matters) for now it will
take a while before I get to this.

           Sam

Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Duncan Sands]

> Being overloaded (read: no time for Linux matters) for now it will
> take a while before I get to this.

I know that feeling too well... :)  Anyway, there's no hurry as far
as I'm concerned.

All the best,

Duncan.