On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:43:58 GMT, SendaoYan <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Hi all, >> >> There is an extra a.out file generated located in repository root directory >> after execute the configure command with llvm/clang compiler sometimes, not >> always. The a.out was generate by `$LINKER -Wl,-v 2>&1 | $HEAD -n 1`, shows >> as below. This PR add a command to remove the extra a.out file. No risk. >> >> >>> rm -rf a.out ; date ; ~/software/acc/x86_64/bin/clang -Wl,-v 2>&1 | head -n >>> 1 ; stat a.out ; ls -lh a.out ; file a.out >> Thu Mar 20 02:46:13 PM CST 2025 >> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.43.50.20240909 >> File: a.out >> Size: 792 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file >> Device: 10303h/66307d Inode: 2355308 Links: 1 >> Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 995/yansendao) Gid: ( 992/yansendao) >> Access: 2025-03-20 14:46:13.682967228 +0800 >> Modify: 2025-03-20 14:46:13.682967228 +0800 >> Change: 2025-03-20 14:46:13.682967228 +0800 >> Birth: 2025-03-20 14:46:13.674966977 +0800 >> -rw-r----- 1 yansendao yansendao 792 Mar 20 14:46 a.out >> a.out: data > > I have add a comment line do demonstrate why we need `RM -rf a.out`. > Hello @sendaoYan, I don't have knowledge of these build files so I'll let the > build team decide if this change is needed. However, is the `-rf` needed in > that `rm` command? Would just `rm a.out` not work? Hello @jaikiran There is a small probability that a.out will not be generated, so I use `-rf` paramater to avoid print error message when there is no a.out file. I think we should use `-f` instead of `-rf`. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24125#issuecomment-2745086955
