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On Friday 05 December 2003 17:25, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Friday 05 Dec 2003 11:03, Simon Mushi wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for the tip...it worked, and the recompile was so much
> > faster. I really like this new time saving feature as make clean is
> > now unneccessary.
>
> You can still do `make clean`.  It's `make dep` that's unnecessary with
> the 2.6 kernels.

'make clean' is also unnecessary, or more correctly, isn't necessary.
It's pretty much always been like this, as the Makefile/make should be 
intelligent enough to not recompile things that don't need to be recompiled.
For a few minutes extra CPU work I always 'make clean' first. Saves any, 
admitedly unlikely, hassle later.

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Mike Williams
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