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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:02:47 -0500
From: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
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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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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
> 
> In other words a more powerfull clean compared to today.
> The difference between clean and mrproper is then _only_ the configuration
> files. That easy to explain, and thats easy to understand. Today only
> very few people know the difference, and simply save their config,
> and do make mrproper.
> 
> I have many times seen people do something like:
> cp .config xxx
> make mrproper
> mv xxx .config
> 
> No need for that, when make clean deletes enough.

I thought make mrproper cleaned whatever make dep did also. Make clean certainly
does not.
I never need a make dep after a clean. Only after a make mrproper???

Mark
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