Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:58:44 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: make distclean and make dep?? |
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > When I do a "make distclean" in a tree, should not that roll it back to a > clean empty tree? I noticed that when I did that no work was done by "make > dep" in the rebuild. With the recent module related changes CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has disappeared. Therefore make dep became a noop.
> Distclean is supposed to be even cleaner than mrproper (to build a clean > tree for distribution) and this behaviour is new. distclean and mrproper has been merged as of 2.44 IIRC. So mrproper and distclean behave in the same way.
> Also noted, somewhere between 2.5.45 and 2.5.46 distclean vanished from > "make help." It's really useful to have distclean work to build patched > kernels for distribution, hopefully this is an oversight and not a new > policy. Since they are equal I removed the help for the less used version.
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