Re: Every Make option ends in error.

[J . A . Magallon]

On 02.02 Ken Moffat wrote:
> Hi guys, 
>  I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out
> and put me out of my misery ?
>  
>  Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without
> any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my last
> compile, so I thought "make mrproper" was called for. It did a little,
> then

Do a 'cp -a linux-2.4.0 linux-2.4.1', and symlinks (asm...) will not be
de-referenced.

Or even better, if you are going to patch, do a 'cp -rl', and your new
tree will not waste almost any space (hard-links all the files, so space
only is duplicated when patch changes some file - and if you remove the
old kernel tree, the space just goes to the new).

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