[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Makefile: remove generated boards.cfg within make distclean

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 11 August 2014 16:52, Masahiro YAMADA <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> (ccing Simon)
>
>
> 2014-08-10 21:37 GMT+09:00 Roger Meier <roger at bufferoverflow.ch>:
>> Signed-off-by: Roger Meier <roger at bufferoverflow.ch>
>> CC: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
>> CC: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
>> CC: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
>>
>> ---
>> Changes for v2:
>>    - remove boards.cfg within make distclean instead of mrproper
>>    - use mrproper instead of distclean within MAKEALL
>> ---
>>  MAKEALL  |    2 +-
>>  Makefile |    3 ++-
>>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> I think it is OK as for MAKEALL.
> But I am not sure it is safe for buildman, which also uses boards.cfg.
>
>
> I just did grep under tools/buildman directory and
> found some lines referring 'distclean'.
>
> ./builder.py:179:                        distclean - can be called to
> clean source
> ./builder.py:275:                    result = self.Make(commit, brd,
> 'distclean', work_dir,
> ./builder.py:276:                            'distclean', *args, env=env)
> ./builder.py:700:            stage: Stage that we are at (distclean,
> config, build)
>
>
> Unfortunately, I am not an expert of buildman.
> I suspect this patch has an impact on it, but I am not sure.
> I think Simon can help you.
>

Yes I think buildman should be updated to change all 'disclean' to 'mrproper'.

Regards,
Simon