Re: why is "scripts/elfconfig.h" not removed with "make mrproper"?

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:01:29AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i just verified that the original 2.5.62 kernel tree does not
> start with the header file "scripts/elfconfig.h".  this file is
> created by running "make xconfig", even when nothing is configured.
> but that file is *not* removed by running "make mrproper", which
> i would think it should be.
> 
>   won't this cause a problem when generating patches, since
> that elfconfig.h file will show up every time?

The following patch fixes this:

===== scripts/Makefile 1.30 vs edited =====
--- 1.30/scripts/Makefile	Mon Feb 17 04:20:26 2003
+++ edited/scripts/Makefile	Tue Feb 18 18:12:22 2003
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 host-progs    := fixdep split-include conmakehash docproc kallsyms modpost \
 		 mk_elfconfig
 build-targets := $(host-progs) empty.o
+EXTRA_TARGETS := elfconfig.h
 
 modpost-objs  := modpost.o file2alias.o
 
@@ -30,4 +31,3 @@
 $(obj)/elfconfig.h: $(obj)/empty.o $(obj)/mk_elfconfig FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,elfconfig)
 
-targets += $(obj)/elfconfig.h