[PATCH 7/9] makefile: Update clean rule to remove files generated by binman

[Simon Glass]

Hi Bin,

On Fri, 7 May 2021 at 08:50, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:38 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bin,
> >
> > On Wed, 5 May 2021 at 07:16, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > When using binman to generate an FIT image, these intermediate files
> > > "*.fit.fit" and "*.fit.itb" are generated from mkimage, which should
> > > be cleaned, and git ignored.
> > >
> > > While we are here, clean the map file generated by "binman -m" as well.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  .gitignore | 4 +++-
> > >  Makefile   | 5 +++--
> > >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > The thing is, binman can emit a lot of files and this is just some of
> > them. We need a way to handle this in general.
> >
> > Options I can think of:
> >
> > - put intermedia files in a subdir
> > - have a way to ask binman to list the files it would have generated
> > for any particular board, and 'rm' them in the Makefile
> > - have binman write out a list of generated files into something like
> > binman.lst and remove those files
>
> For binman generated files, these are options we can look at. But I am
> not sure if the same applies to mkimage generated ones? Is it worth
> changing in this series?

But isn't mkimage invoked by binman?

I think this patch is best skipped if we cannot solve the problem
fully. We can return to it another time perhaps.

Regards,
Simon