Scott Wood wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> I was looking at the arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore file. >>>> Why are all of those non-local-directory files listed there? >>>> E.g., empty.c, inf*.c, inf*.h, zconf.h, zlib.h, zutil.h, etc. >> >> Why would these files be listed in arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore ?? > > Because they're created when building a bootwrapper? > >>>> And what is "dtc"? I see a dtc-src directory, but "dtc" is MIA. >>> ./arch/powerpc/boot/dtc >> >> Where do you see that? That's not in 2.6.27-rc6 nor in the current >> powerpc.git tree. They both have: > > Of course not -- it wouldn't be in gitignore if it weren't a generated > file. > >>> pwd >> /var/linsrc/lin2627-rc6/arch/powerpc/boot >>> ls -ld dt* >> drwxr-xr-x 2 rdunlap users 4096 Jul 13 14:51 dtc-src/ >> drwxr-xr-x 2 rdunlap users 4096 Sep 9 19:33 dts/ >> >> >> which leads me to believe that the .gitignore entry should be either >> dts or dtc-src or both, but not "dtc". > > Why would we want to ignore source directories? dtc is the binary that > is built from dtc-src.
Thanks. Got it. ~Randy _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
