The binutils ".gitignore" seems outdated & "make distclean" does not clean everything

[Ulf Samuelsson]

I cloned the latest git

Ran a build script.

=================
#!/bin/bash
DEST_DIR=/home/ulf/projects/binutils/bin
mkdir        -p $DEST_DIR
rm             -fr $DEST_DIR/*
./configure --prefix $DEST_DIR
make -j 32
make install
=================

and then

$ git status

The result:

On branch CRC

Untracked files:

     Makefile
     bfd/Makefile
     bfd/doc/.dirstamp
     bfd/elf32-aarch64.c
     bfd/elf32-loongarch.c
     bfd/elf32-riscv.c
     bfd/elf64-aarch64.c
     bfd/elf64-loongarch.c
     bfd/elf64-riscv.c
     bfd/po/Makefile
     bfd/po/Makefile.in
     binutils/Makefile
     binutils/bfdtest1
     binutils/bfdtest2
     binutils/doc/.dirstamp
     binutils/po/Makefile
     binutils/po/Makefile.in
     binutils/testsuite/.dirstamp
     binutils/testsuite/gentestdlls
     etc/Makefile
     gas/Makefile
     gas/config/.dirstamp
     gas/doc/.dirstamp
     gas/po/Makefile
     gas/po/Makefile.in
     gdb/config.lt
     gdb/doc/GDBvn.texi
     gdb/doc/gcore.1
     gdb/doc/gdb-add-index.1
     gdb/doc/gdb-cfg.texi
     gdb/doc/gdb.1
     gdb/doc/gdbinit.5
     gdb/doc/gdbserver.1
     gdb/doc/version.subst
     gdb/gdb-gdb.py
     gdbserver/version-generated.cc
     gdbsupport/Makefile
     gnulib/Makefile
     gnulib/Makefile.gnulib.inc
     gnulib/import/Makefile
     gnulib/import/alloca.h
     gnulib/import/arpa/
     gnulib/import/ctype.h
     gnulib/import/dirent.h
     gnulib/import/fcntl.h
     gnulib/import/glob-libc.gl.h
     gnulib/import/glob.h
     gnulib/import/glthread/.dirstamp
     gnulib/import/inttypes.h
     gnulib/import/limits.h
     gnulib/import/locale.h
     gnulib/import/malloc/.dirstamp
     gnulib/import/malloc/scratch_buffer.gl.h
     gnulib/import/math.h
     gnulib/import/netdb.h
     gnulib/import/signal.h
     gnulib/import/stdio.h
     gnulib/import/stdlib.h
     gnulib/import/string.h
     gnulib/import/strings.h
     gnulib/import/sys/
     gnulib/import/time.h
     gnulib/import/unistd.h
     gnulib/import/wchar.h
     gnulib/import/wctype.h
     gprof/Makefile
     gprof/po/Makefile
     gprof/po/Makefile.in
     gprofng/Makefile
     gprofng/Simple.class
     gprofng/doc/Makefile
     gprofng/doc/gprofng.1
     gprofng/dummy.c
     gprofng/gp-display-html/Makefile
     gprofng/gp-display-html/gp-display-html
     gprofng/gp-display-html/gp-display-html.1
     gprofng/libcollector/Makefile
     gprofng/libcollector/lib-config.h
     gprofng/src/Makefile
     gprofng/src/QLParser.tab.cc
     gprofng/src/QLParser.tab.hh
     gprofng/src/gp-archive
     gprofng/src/gp-archive.1
     gprofng/src/gp-collect-app
     gprofng/src/gp-collect-app.1
     gprofng/src/gp-display-src
     gprofng/src/gp-display-src.1
     gprofng/src/gp-display-text
     gprofng/src/gp-display-text.1
     gprofng/src/gprofng
     gprofng/src/stack.hh
     intl/Makefile
     ld/Makefile
     ld/po/Makefile
     ld/po/Makefile.in
     libbacktrace/Makefile
     libbacktrace/backtrace-supported.h
     libbacktrace/gstdint.h
     libbacktrace/install-debuginfo-for-buildid.sh
     libctf/Makefile
     libctf/config.lt
     libctf/doc/.dirstamp
     libdecnumber/Makefile
     libiberty/Makefile
     libiberty/testsuite/Makefile
     libsframe/Makefile
     libsframe/doc/.dirstamp
     opcodes/Makefile
     opcodes/po/Makefile
     opcodes/po/Makefile.in
     readline/Makefile
     sim/Makefile
     sim/arch-subdir.mk
     sim/common/.dirstamp
     sim/common/version.c-stamp
     zlib/Makefile

If I then do a

$ make distclean

I get:

On branch CRC

     removed:     sim/ppc/.gdbinit

Untracked files:

     gdb/config.lt
     gdb/doc/GDBvn.texi
     gdb/doc/gcore.1
     gdb/doc/gdb-add-index.1
     gdb/doc/gdb.1
     gdb/doc/gdbinit.5
     gdb/doc/gdbserver.1
     gdb/doc/version.subst
     gprofng/Simple.class
     gprofng/doc/gprofng.1
     gprofng/dummy.c
     gprofng/gp-display-html/gp-display-html.1
     gprofng/src/QLParser.tab.cc
     gprofng/src/QLParser.tab.hh
     gprofng/src/gp-archive.1
     gprofng/src/gp-collect-app.1
     gprofng/src/gp-display-src.1
     gprofng/src/gp-display-text.1
     gprofng/src/stack.hh
     libbacktrace/gstdint.h

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Looks like they need some maintenance.

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson