On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:53:29AM -0700, James Fowler wrote:
> I always have done
> 'make clean'
> make dep
> make mrproper (this part I sometimes don't do as I am not clear on its
> function)
> make boot
If you always have done that then it never worked. 'make mrproper'
deletes, among other things, all results of running 'make dep' and
.config as well. Hence always reminders "Save your .config file before
doing 'make mrproper' or you will be redoing the whole configuration
from scratch". 'make boot' will force 'make dep' if dependencies are
missing but for sure it will not restore .config.
'mrproper' make target was named after a "Mr. Proper" cleaning agent and
it indeed does a thorough clean-up job. It is meant for preparing
sources for a distribution. It is sometimes also a very good idea to
run it - when you are switching between non-SMP and SMP kernels, for
example, or when you just changed libraries used by various tools in a
kernel tree. In both cases it is possible to get away with less of a
cleanup, if you know what you are doing, but 'make mrproper' is faster,
simpler, and guarantees that you did not forget about some far away
corner.
Michal
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