From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: davidsen@tmr.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why 'mrproper'?
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:32:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807133217.GF32427@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208070851230.2421-100000@iccarus.tmr.com>
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:55:25AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Having started out on the four floppy MCC "distribution" of Linux,
> building kernels clean with 'make distclean,' can someone provide a quick
> historical note as to what mrproper buys? A quick look at the tree after
> each didn't tell me much.
Besides of the referral to domestic cleaning agent..
The "mrproper" tag is being used all over the place
to remove most of configuration and compilation related
files.
"distclean" calls at first "mrproper", and then does some
additional cleanups, like various editor backup files.
Thus "distclean" does more than "mrproper".
Deeper understanding is available to those who read the top-level
"Makefile" file. ;-) (Presuming they understand makefile.)
/Matti Aarnio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-07 12:55 Bill Davidsen
2002-08-07 13:18 ` Chris Chabot
2002-08-07 13:58 ` DevilKin
2002-08-07 15:08 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 17:30 ` Heinz Diehl
2002-08-07 14:13 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-08-07 13:32 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
2002-08-07 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-08-07 23:23 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 13:46 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-07 17:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 17:13 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 18:51 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 20:07 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 21:07 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 23:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-08-09 17:47 ` Kelsey Hudson
2002-08-09 17:57 ` kernel memory swap Imran Badr
2002-08-09 19:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-09 23:19 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-08-14 16:25 Why 'mrproper'? Joerg Pommnitz
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