Re: make clean for DocBook

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:03:37PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:32:50 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> Yes, thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Thanks, pushed out to kbuild.git.

	Sam