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[PATCH pushed] gdbserver: Clear .deps on clean
- From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
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- Cc: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 10:52:19 -0400
- Subject: [PATCH pushed] gdbserver: Clear .deps on clean
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I have just pushed this:
In some situations, the dependency tracking files in .deps can refer to
source files that were removed or renamed, leading to errors like:
make: *** No rule to make target `version.c', needed by `version.o'. Stop.
This patch makes the clean target clear the .deps directory, which gives
the user a chance to recover from the error wihtout knowing about the
internals of the build system.
It is already done for GDB. See here for more details:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-03/msg00000.html
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (clean): Clear .deps.
---
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in | 1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
index 7ad841880e..39aea2fe0d 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-04-04 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * Makefile.in (clean): Clear .deps.
+
2017-03-31 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* .gitignore: Remove generated files, replace with wildcard.
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in b/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
index 6af7c402f8..01dfdc0b89 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ clean:
rm -f $(IPA_LIB)
rm -f *-generated.c
rm -f stamp-xml
+ rm -f $(DEPDIR)/*.Po
@$(MAKE) $(FLAGS_TO_PASS) DO=$@ "DODIRS=$(SUBDIRS)" subdir_do
maintainer-clean realclean distclean: clean
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