From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:00:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:00:01 -0500 Received: from smtp.primusdsl.net ([209.225.164.93]:13843 "EHLO mailhost.digitalselect.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:59:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:00:26 -0500 From: James Lewis Nance To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: make mrproper Message-ID: <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> <20010124173302.A8027@marvin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010124173302.A8027@marvin>; from leo.howell@ntlworld.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:33:02PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:33:02PM +0000, leo.howell@ntlworld.com wrote: > Long ago, about January 24, Joseph wrote: > > >From John Levon on Wednesday, 24 January, 2001: > > >Idle curiosity, but what does the "mr" in make mrproper > > >stand for ? > > > > My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German > > Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning > > agent bottle). I'm not sure of the spelling, though. It's been > > a while since I've seen the commercials. > > I dunno if it's Finnish, though. Never been there. Maybe it was > > put in by a German developer. Maybe not. It was there when > > I started. > > Hmm; I always thought it stood for m(ake the)r(emake) proper > ie, recompile properly if something got messed up. > > But I like the Mister Clean better :) I saw a post from Linus once about this. It is Finnish for "Mr. Clean". Jim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/