Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:29:17 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-ac10 compile errors |
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[recipient's list shortened] At 12:19 23/01/01, Keith Owens wrote: >On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:11 +0000, >Anders Karlsson <anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com> wrote: > >Even if it is a pristine kernel tree? What function does the 'make > >mrproper' fill on an unused kernel tree? > >Depends on how you removed the old tree. If you did 'rm -rf *' then >some dot files are left around. make mrproper removes dot files, it >may or may not be the fix.
And don't forget that even "an unused kernel tree" installed from scratch can very well not be clean from generated files as well. I always do a make mrproper after I uncompressed a new kernel tree to make sure there are no files there that shouldn't be.
Anton
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