According to Raider: While burning my CPU.
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
> > For the kernel source tree, you should do a 'make mrproper', not a 'make
> > clean'.
>
> Don't be so sure. make clean is the 'gentle' way of doing it.
As i said in my last message, make distclean is one of if not the best way.
> After a make mrproper I had problmes compiling other software because it
> seems that some links were lost. Not sure about this.
You dont lose "links" as in symlinks, there are 3 in /usr/include.
What you do lose are config.h version.h .defines files in different
directorys, now some programs rely on those files for thier configuration
scripts and in a lot of cases a config.h file from the kernel source "might"
be called, yes you guessed it, cant find file, "make error [1] [2]".
> Anyway it was
> corrected with make oldconfig; make dep. And another friend had a similar
> problem solved the same way. And make mrproper doesn't clean a lot more.
Yes because as soon as you have done a make oldconfig config or whatever,
those config.h files are then created and thus back in place, for other
programs to look for at compile time.
>
> > - Mike
>
> Raider
> PS: Mike, try editing the message before sending it. I mean I
> wrote a lot, and you quoted all even if you commented just a paragraph.
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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Regards Richard.
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