On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:02, Mike Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. >
No "hassles" encountered in the past two years (2.4 and 2.6), so I "never" use clean, except in those rare instances where a compile has failed and you are doing something special in a particular subdirectory. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Gentoo stable -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
