Re: external modules make clean doesn't do much

[Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>]

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.