2015-01-29 22:36, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:52:45 -0800
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
>
> > 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"
> >
>
> Works for me.
So the commit is now reverted:
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=785e1a0932b67136
--
Thomas
