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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-28 15:13:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-28 15:13:55 -0700 |
| commit | c9e2a72ff1acfdffdecb338b3d997f90c507e665 (patch) | |
| tree | 9be4b7e6a1cb90ffa86148a3937021118a5913c0 /Documentation | |
| parent | 9aca0e7c8c3a8f1fa6e3058abc5465b0509f0f8e (diff) | |
| parent | d63f6d1b4d3ad0d88685a5f8eb1c3cac01ddd0db (diff) | |
Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index c787ae51212..0ef00bd6e54 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -776,6 +776,13 @@ This will delete the directory debian, including all subdirectories. Kbuild will assume the directories to be in the same relative path as the Makefile if no absolute path is specified (path does not start with '/'). +To exclude certain files from make clean, use the $(no-clean-files) variable. +This is only a special case used in the top level Kbuild file: + + Example: + #Kbuild + no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file) + Usually kbuild descends down in subdirectories due to "obj-* := dir/", but in the architecture makefiles where the kbuild infrastructure is not sufficient this sometimes needs to be explicit. |