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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:58:44 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: make distclean and make dep??
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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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