From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: make distclean and make dep??
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:58:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113205844.GB2822@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131417480.32544-100000@oddball.prodigy.com>
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.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-13 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-13 19:32 Bill Davidsen
2002-11-13 20:58 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2002-11-13 21:14 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-11-13 21:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-11-14 15:35 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-11-14 17:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-14 17:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-11-14 21:02 ` Mark Hounschell
2002-11-15 0:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-15 14:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-15 16:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-11-15 16:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-15 19:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-15 21:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-17 7:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-18 16:36 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-11-18 17:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-18 17:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-13 23:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-13 23:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-14 17:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-13 19:38 Dan Steele
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