Re: 2.4.0-ac10 compile errors

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:29:17 +0000

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At 12:19 23/01/01, Keith Owens wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:11 +0000,
>Anders Karlsson <anders.karlsson@meansolutions.com> wrote:
> >Even if it is a pristine kernel tree? What function does the 'make
> >mrproper' fill on an unused kernel tree?
>
>Depends on how you removed the old tree. If you did 'rm -rf *' then
>some dot files are left around. make mrproper removes dot files, it
>may or may not be the fix.

And don't forget that even "an unused kernel tree" installed from scratch
can very well not be clean from generated files as well. I always do a make
mrproper after I uncompressed a new kernel tree to make sure there are no
files there that shouldn't be.

Anton

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