make mrproper deletes lib/acpi/dsdt.c

[Simon Glass]

+Heinrich Schuchardt who noticed the same thing

We should know the pathname of the generated dsdt.c file so perhaps we
should delete it explicitly?


- Simon


On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 08:34, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Marcel,
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 03:10, Marcel Ziswiler
> <marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Simon
> >
> > Since a few days I noticed the following:
> >
> > ⬢[zim at toolbox u-boot.git]$ git status
> > On branch master
> > Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
> > ⬢[zim at toolbox u-boot.git]$ make mrproper
> > ⬢[zim at toolbox u-boot.git]$ git status
> > On branch master
> > Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
> >
> > Changes not staged for commit:
> >   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> >   (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
> >         deleted:    lib/acpi/dsdt.c
> >
> > So somehow cleaning with mrproper deletes that file. Do you know what could be the cause?
>
> Yes it is the
>
> -o -name 'dsdt.c'
>
> in the Makefile 'clean' rule. That file is created during the build in
> a board/ directory (e.g. with chromebook_coral) which is why we delete
> it. It seems like we need to make a change somewhere.
>
> Regards,
> Simon