"make clean": how it's needed?

Paolo Ornati (javaman@katamail.com)
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:56:07 +0100

I have this doubt, the "standard" procedure to build a kernel(2.2.x/2.4.x) is:
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean // ... when?
make modules
make bzImage
...

so, when I really _MUST_ run "make clean"?
always?
only after that I have applied a patch?

I think that many old "*.o" files are still good... and so, why I should
recompile them every time?

Bye,
Paolo

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