RE: make distclean and make dep??

[Dan Steele]

>When I do a "make distclean" in a tree, should not that roll it back to a 
>clean empty tree? I noticed that when I did that no work was done by "make 
>dep" in the rebuild.
>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.
I've also noticed make rpm fails to link some stuff and craps out, around

arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `fix_broken_hp_bios_irq9':

which is odd because a make bzImage links it fine...

Dan.