From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anders Karlsson <anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-ac10 compile errors
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:29:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010123122539.00a18c00@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23997.980252378@ocs3.ocs-net>
In-Reply-To: <Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:11 -0000." <20010123121611.A3723@alien.ssd.hursley.ibm.com>
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At 12:19 23/01/01, Keith Owens wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:11 +0000,
>Anders Karlsson <anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com> wrote:
> >Even if it is a pristine kernel tree? What function does the 'make
> >mrproper' fill on an unused kernel tree?
>
>Depends on how you removed the old tree. If you did 'rm -rf *' then
>some dot files are left around. make mrproper removes dot files, it
>may or may not be the fix.
And don't forget that even "an unused kernel tree" installed from scratch
can very well not be clean from generated files as well. I always do a make
mrproper after I uncompressed a new kernel tree to make sure there are no
files there that shouldn't be.
Anton
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-23 10:48 Anders Karlsson
2001-01-23 11:43 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-23 12:16 ` Anders Karlsson
2001-01-23 12:19 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-23 12:29 ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-01-23 12:52 ` Anders Karlsson
[not found] ` <Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:11 -0000." <20010123121611.A3723@alien.ssd.hursley.ibm.com>
2001-01-23 12:29 ` Anton Altaparmakov [this message]
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