Hi Stephen, 2015-01-28 12:00, Olivier MATZ: > Hi Stephen, > > On 01/23/2015 07:19 AM, stephen at networkplumber.org wrote: > > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming at brocade.com> > > > > In some cases application may want to have additional rules > > for clean. This can be handled by allowing the double colon > > form of rule. > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Double_002dColon.html > > There is already a way to do that in dpdk makefiles: you can add > the following code in your application Makefile, before the line > that includes $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.app.mk: > > POSTCLEAN += my_clean > > .PHONY: my_clean > my_clean: > @echo executed after clean
Does it fit with your needs? Should we revert your patch? Double-colon rules were avoided in DPDK. "Double-colon rules are somewhat obscure and not often very useful" -- Thomas
