Re: make distclean and make dep??

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:35:53AM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > I think there's good reasons for both distclean and mrproper, distclean is
> > the standard target which most projects use, and mrproper is the
> > traditional Linux kernel target. So I would vote for keeping them both
> > (and share a common help entry).
> > 
> > What I don't see is why we would need different semantics, though, 
> > anybody?
> How about the following:
> clean	Delete all intermidiate files, including symlinks and modversions
> mrproper	clean + deletes .config and .config.old
> distclean	mrproper + all editor backup, patch backup files

Looks sensible to me.

Nicolas