Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:48:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:48:43 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:26827 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:48:42 -0500 To: landley@trommello.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.44: what's .tmp_export-objs for? References: <200210281054.16008.landley@trommello.org> From: Olaf Dietsche Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:54:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200210281054.16008.landley@trommello.org> (Rob Landley's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:54:16 -0500") Message-ID: <87y98inphh.fsf@goat.bogus.local> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i386-debian-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 964 Lines: 17 Rob Landley 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/