Re: HELP: Building System

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:50:49PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> I think that the available Documentetion about "REcompiling a kernel" is a
> little confusing (about the use of "make clean").

Did you try to read README in the top-level directory?

Anyway "make clean" deletes most of the generated files, but most
important leaves the actual .config.
"make mrproper" cleans up stuff even more, but remember to save/restore
.config when using "make mrproper".

        Sam
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