In some situations, the dependency tracking files in .deps can refer to
source files that were removed or renamed, leading to errors like:
make: *** No rule to make target `version.c', needed by `version.o'. Stop.
This patch makes the clean target clear the .deps directory, which gives
the user a chance to recover from the error wihtout knowing about the
internals of the build system.
It is already done for GDB. See here for more details:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-03/msg00000.html
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (clean): Clear .deps.
+2017-04-04 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * Makefile.in (clean): Clear .deps.
+
2017-03-31 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* .gitignore: Remove generated files, replace with wildcard.
rm -f $(IPA_LIB)
rm -f *-generated.c
rm -f stamp-xml
+ rm -f $(DEPDIR)/*.Po
@$(MAKE) $(FLAGS_TO_PASS) DO=$@ "DODIRS=$(SUBDIRS)" subdir_do
maintainer-clean realclean distclean: clean