Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:09:02 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: make distclean and make dep?? |
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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.
So neither of them actually cleans the source tree to release a distribution anymore? The difference between them was useful, distclean got rid of version headers and some other assorted cruft you don't want in a distribution.
> > 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.
Thanks for the explanation, but I wonder if it was really worth having people write their own clean scripts to avoid maintaining a few lines of Makefile which haven't changed in ages.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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