When building "tools/bpf" from the top of the Linux repository, the
build system passes a value for the $(OUTPUT) Makefile variable to
tools/bpf/Makefile and tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile, which results in
generating "libbpf/" (for bpftool) and "feature/" (bpf and bpftool)
directories inside the tree.
This commit adds such directories to the relevant .gitignore files, and
edits the Makefiles to ensure they are removed on "make clean". The use
of "rm" is also made consistent throughout those Makefiles (relies on
the $(RM) variable, use "--" to prevent interpreting
$(OUTPUT)/$(DESTDIR) as options.
v2:
- New patch.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
tools/bpf/bpftool/.gitignore has the "bpftool" pattern, which is
intended to ignore the following build artifact:
tools/bpf/bpftool/bpftool
However, the .gitignore entry is effective not only for the current
directory, but also for any sub-directories.
So, from the point of .gitignore grammar, the following check-in file
is also considered to be ignored:
tools/bpf/bpftool/bash-completion/bpftool
As the manual gitignore(5) says "Files already tracked by Git are not
affected", this is not a problem as far as Git is concerned.
However, Git is not the only program that parses .gitignore because
.gitignore is useful to distinguish build artifacts from source files.
For example, tar(1) supports the --exclude-vcs-ignore option. As of
writing, this option does not work perfectly, but it intends to create
a tarball excluding files specified by .gitignore.
So, I believe it is better to fix this issue.
You can fix it by prefixing the pattern with a slash; the leading slash
means the specified pattern is relative to the current directory.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
For untracked things of tools/bpf, add this.
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Quentin Monnet