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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260225200417.GE2755225@ax162> X-Spam-Score: -4.30 X-Spam-Level: X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.30 / 50.00]; BAYES_HAM(-3.00)[100.00%]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.20)[-0.998]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FUZZY_RATELIMITED(0.00)[rspamd.com]; RCPT_COUNT_SEVEN(0.00)[11]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_SIGNED(0.00)[suse.de:s=susede2_rsa,suse.de:s=susede2_ed25519]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[suse.de:email] X-Spam-Flag: NO On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 01:04:17PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > For packaging purposes I want to be able to grab the tool binaries > > without the .o files > > > > Fixes: 68b4fe32d737 ("kbuild: Add objtool to top-level clean target") > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek > > Wouldn't resolve_btfids need the same treatment? No, make clean runs the clean target for resolve_btfids but the tool remains. > Why is objtool special here? That's what I would like to know as well. > Also, what's the use case? Running 'make clean' then copying what > is left? Yes, that's what my build script has been doing for at least a decade, possibly mutiple decades when it was somebody else's build script. Thanks Michal > Josh, thoughts on this change? > > > --- > > Makefile | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > > index e944c6e71e81..e9b8811a02f5 100644 > > --- a/Makefile > > +++ b/Makefile > > @@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ vmlinuxclean: > > $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean > > $(Q)$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) clean) > > > > -clean: archclean vmlinuxclean resolve_btfids_clean objtool_clean > > +clean: archclean vmlinuxclean resolve_btfids_clean > > > > # mrproper - Delete all generated files, including .config > > # > > @@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ PHONY += $(mrproper-dirs) mrproper > > $(mrproper-dirs): > > $(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(patsubst _mrproper_%,%,$@) > > > > -mrproper: clean $(mrproper-dirs) > > +mrproper: clean objtool_clean $(mrproper-dirs) > > $(call cmd,rmfiles) > > @find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \ > > \( -name '*.rmeta' \) \ > > -- > > 2.51.0 > >