From 9c8cdb71644a22c2ffa0a7daa1b54cb6ed718c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gortmaker Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:28:58 -0500 Subject: kbuild: unconditionally clobber include/linux/version.h on distclean As of v3.7, the UAPI changes relocated headers around such that the kernel version header lived in a new place. If a person is bisecting and if you go back to pre-UAPI days, you will create an include/linux/version.h -- then if you checkout a post-UAPI kernel, and even run "make distclean" it still won't delete that old version file. So you get a situation like this: $ grep -R LINUX_VERSION_CODE include/ include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h:#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 200192 include/linux/version.h:#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132646 The value in that second line is representative of a v2.6.38 version. And it will be sourced/used, hence leading to strange behaviours, such as drivers/staging content (which typically hasn't been purged of version ifdefs) failing to build. Since it is a subtle mode of failure, lets always clobber the old file when doing a distclean. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Michal Marek --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Makefile') diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 606ef7c4a544..aae58aad01c5 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old .version .old_version $(version_h) \ Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS \ signing_key.priv signing_key.x509 x509.genkey \ extra_certificates signing_key.x509.keyid \ - signing_key.x509.signer + signing_key.x509.signer include/linux/version.h # clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules # -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522