make clean fails #4548

issue jgarzik opened this issue on July 16, 2014

jgarzik commented at 11:27 PM on July 16, 2014: contributor

Platform: Ubuntu 14/Linux 64-bit Current HEAD: 87e40799fdebb9f4c3c9d8cc7d071408a4ea768e

$ make -s clean
Making clean in src
 rm -f bitcoind bitcoin-cli test/test_bitcoin qt/bitcoin-qt qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.

kazcw commented at 11:35 PM on July 16, 2014: contributor
I'm seeing this as the first error in the log (also with 87e4079):
```
make -C secp256k1 clean
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/kaz/a/btc/bitcoin2/src/secp256k1'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'clean'.  Stop.
```
So it looks like this is a problem with the secp256k1 directory.
theuni commented at 2:57 AM on July 17, 2014: member

Thanks for reporting, I haven't noticed this somehow. Will fix.
theuni commented at 2:04 AM on July 18, 2014: member
Ok, I see. "make -s" is lying to you somewhat. The rule is here:
```
clean-local:
        -$(MAKE) -C leveldb clean
        -$(MAKE) -C secp256k1 clean
```
The - in front means that it's allowed to fail without causing an error, in this case, because lib secp256k1 hasn't been merged yet. A full 'make clean' tells the whole story:
```
make -C secp256k1 clean
make: *** secp256k1: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: [clean-local] Error 2 (ignored)
```
See #4553 for fix.
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#4553 build: silence false errors during make clean