Re: 2.2.1 Makefile patch

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:29:05 +0100 (CET)

>
> Hi there.
>
> A while back, somebody complained about having problems with their
> kernel that required them to do "make mrproper" to clean it up, and
> that they lost their configuration doing that, which made them less
> than happy...
>
> The enclosed patch adds an extra option to the root makefile which
> basically does the "make mrproper" without deleting the current
> configuration. This option is "make proper".
>
> I can report that it works on my system, and on that of a friend of
> mine, and I can't see anything to prevent it working on every system,
> but comments will be much appreciated.

IMHO that is a wrong approach. The right way is to fix the dependencies, as
doing this make proper makes you recompile all the kernel, while if you do
the fix right, then you just have to recompile what's necessary.

Cheers,
Jakub
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