Re: [PATCH] KBuild documentation - make dep

[Jeff Smith <whydoubt@yahoo.com>]

--- Paulo Andre' <fscked@iol.pt> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Jeff Smith <whydoubt@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps a reference saying that `make dep' is not needed anymore and
> that it is actually deprecated should remain in the documentation?
> 
> 		Paulo

Paulo,
I would say make dep was deprecated around 2.5.23.  In 2.5.60, in the root
Makefile, the target was reduced to a simple warning.  I would call this
'obsoleted'.  As far as I can tell, only one Makefile still utilizes the
dep target, and this may be an oversight.  So how about this patch:

-- Jeff Smith

========================================================================
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt Mon May 26 20:00:41 2003
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt Tue May 27 23:39:29 2003
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 you need:

     make config
-    make dep
     make bzImage

 Instead of 'make config', you can run 'make menuconfig' for a full-screen
@@ -91,23 +90,6 @@

        'make dep' is a synonym for the long form, 'make depend'.

-       This command does two things.  First, it computes dependency
-       information about which .o files depend on which .h files.
-       It records this information in a top-level file named .hdepend
-       and in one file per source directory named .depend.
-
-       Second, if you have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS enabled, 'make dep'
-       computes symbol version information for all of the files that
-       export symbols (note that both resident and modular files may
-       export symbols).
-
-       If you do not enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, you only have to run
-       'make dep' once, right after the first time you configure
-       the kernel.  The .hdepend files and the .depend file are
-       independent of your configuration.
-
-       If you do enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, you must run 'make dep'
-       every time you change your configuration, because the module
-       symbol version information depends on the configuration.
+       As of version 2.5.60, this command is obsolete.

 [to be continued ...]


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