Re: make distclean and make dep??

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:11:50 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:

> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >>Also noted, somewhere between 2.5.45 and 2.5.46 distclean vanished from
> >>"make help." It's really useful to have distclean work to build patched
> >>kernels for distribution, hopefully this is an oversight and not a new
> >>policy.
> >
> > Since they are equal I removed the help for the less used version.
>
> Not so nice. /me e.g. is used to distclean, never used mrproper and
> distclean is a standard target in most projects, so people are probably
> more used to distclean than mrproper which is kernel specific.
> The thing to point this out is that if the help is removed the target
> will presumably be removed sooner or later, too.
>

Might as well, the distclean functionality is gone, neither does the full
cleanup.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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