At 07:48 AM 5/7/02, you wrote:
> > Why doesn't Mandrake ship "clean" kernel source? By clean, I mean
>running
> > "make mrproper" before building the src.rpm.
> >
>
>because it prevents compiling external modules.
>
... [snip] ...
>As I said, make mrproper is not possible, but we do not need .depend
>files, you are right (meaning - do not need to compile external
>modules). So the correct state should be
>
>Kernel-source with correct autoconf.h, modversions.h and
>include/linux/modules but without .config and .depend.
>
>-andrej
Andrej,
How does "make mrproper" prevent compiling external modules?
If I recall, a full, clean build would use the following commands:
make mrproper
make menuconfig (or xconfig or oldconfig)
make deps
make bzImage
make install
make module_install
"make mrproper" only deletes ALL generated files. These files will be
regenerated during the make.
Also, if "make mrproper" prevents module compilation, why are people being
told to run this command before building a kernel. This doesn't make any
sense.
David
