Re: make clean for DocBook

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

> > 
> > 
> > And we will visit DocBook with mrproper - but not clean.
> > I have no stron opinion when to delete generated files in DocBook.
> 
> OK, that's fine, thanks for the info...
> but trying 'make mrproper' gives me:
> 
> make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=Documentation/DocBook
> make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=Documentation/DocBook/man/
> make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
> make[2]: *** [__clean] Error 127
> make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/man/] Error 2
> make: *** [_mrproper_Documentation/DocBook] Error 2
> 
> DocBook/man/ contains about 2000 files.
> Is there some way to have scripts/Makefile.clean just do
> 	rm -rf Documentation/DocBook/man/
> ?  or some other solution?

Something like this should do it.
This deletes the man/ directory entirely so
I have to do that when I check in the patch.

Let me know if this works for you.

	Sam

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 867608a..960f402 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ quiet_cmd_db2man = MAN     $@
 	@(which xmlto > /dev/null 2>&1) || \
 	 (echo "*** You need to install xmlto ***"; \
 	  exit 1)
+	$(Q)mkdir -p $(obj)/man
 	$(call cmd,db2man)
 	@touch $@
 
@@ -212,11 +213,7 @@ clean-files := $(DOCBOOKS) \
 	$(patsubst %.xml, %.9,    $(DOCBOOKS)) \
 	$(C-procfs-example)
 
-clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS))
-
-#man put files in man subdir - traverse down
-subdir- := man/
-
+clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS)) man
 
 # Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony.  We keep that
 # information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fb7ea0..0000000
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Rules are put in Documentation/DocBook
-
-clean-files := *.9.gz *.sgml manpage.links manpage.refs