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...
