Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Avoid explicit list of directories in clean target

[Stefan Weil]

Am 31.07.2012 17:00, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 31 July 2012 15:38, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Isn't using 'find' somewhat overkill here really. QEMU only creates
> > .o and .d files in 2 levels of directory, so sure we can just avoid
> > find entirely
> >
> >    rm -f *.[od] */*.[od]
>
> That's exactly the bug this change is addressing (in a more
> general way than a couple of the proposed point fixes). There
> are subdirectories of hw/, so for instance we have a hw/usb/bus.o
> which your rm would not delete.
>
> -- PMM

Yes, QEMU creates files in 3 levels. We could use

    rm -f *.[od] */*.[od] */*/*.[od]

I suggest using the wrapper $(call quiet-command,...)
to suppress printing of all removed file names.

For me, your patch using find would also be sufficient.

Only developers use "make clean", and they should know
how to name files. Even if there are files with blanks
in their name, in most cases nothing bad will happen
(as long as they are not named "-rf .. .o" which would
be the worst scenario I can imagine).

Regards,
Stefan W.