Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:35:53 -0600 (CST) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: make distclean and make dep?? |
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > >>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. > > > > Not so nice. /me e.g. is used to distclean, never used mrproper and > > distclean is a standard target in most projects, so people are probably > > more used to distclean than mrproper which is kernel specific.
I think there's good reasons for both distclean and mrproper, distclean is the standard target which most projects use, and mrproper is the traditional Linux kernel target. So I would vote for keeping them both (and share a common help entry).
What I don't see is why we would need different semantics, though, anybody?
--Kai
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