Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Avoid explicit list of directories in clean target

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 31 July 2012 15:19, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
>>> +     find . -name '*.[od]' | xargs rm -f
>>> + rm -f *.a *.lo $(TOOLS) $(HELPERS-y) qemu-ga TAGS cscope.* *.pod
>>> *~ */*~
>>
>> Shit happens if you somehow manage to create a "mean" file name in the
>> build tree.  Sure you don't want to -print0 | xargs -0?
>
> -print0 isn't POSIX, so I wasn't sure it would be present on all
> our platforms. (It's probably fairly safe, though...)

Another option is "-exec rm {} +".