Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org> writes:
> I accidentally did a 2.5.44 kernel build as root rather than my normal user,
> so I'm trying to see what clean steps I need to so (as root) to be able to
> build the tree again. A normal make clean failed (permission denied deleting
> files), so I did an su and a make clean. Exit back to normal user, make
> clean, life is good, do a make dep, and it complains about the directory
> .tmp_export-objs.
>
> 1) Why does the build process use a hidden directory?
>
> 2) Why isn't make clean removing something with "tmp" in the name?
"make help" lists a bunch of options. I guess, what you're searching
for is "make mrproper" or even "make distclean".
Regards, Olaf.
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