On 29 Oct 2002, Juan Quintela wrote:

> - In this particular case, the make clean is the thing that makes the
>   diff, but could not be enough:
> 
> save .config
> make mrproper
> restore .config if you want.
> make *config
> make bzImage modules
> make modules_install install
> 
> should _always_ work, and is the recomended procedure.
> 

What does exactly make mrproper? Does it also remove the *.o files?
If yes, where is the advantage of having a make-like build process if you
need *always* to make mrproper? When can you skip it?(*)

Apologies for so many questions!

Biagio

(*): I thought that 2.4 had made obsolete the make mrproper and make clean
part of the chain, but here you are telling me that I have misunderstood
something...





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