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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:47:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: make distclean and make dep??
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:35:53AM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > I think there's good reasons for both distclean and mrproper, distclean is
> > the standard target which most projects use, and mrproper is the
> > traditional Linux kernel target. So I would vote for keeping them both
> > (and share a common help entry).
> > 
> > What I don't see is why we would need different semantics, though, 
> > anybody?
> How about the following:
> clean	Delete all intermidiate files, including symlinks and modversions
> mrproper	clean + deletes .config and .config.old
> distclean	mrproper + all editor backup, patch backup files

Looks sensible to me.


Nicolas

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