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.
> 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.
Sam
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