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modules kept failing. Then I read a post in this group about running make
mrproper. Make modules then worked. Exactly what does it do? I tried to
research this but have been unable to find an explanation I understand.
thx.
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| Alexander Dalloz 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| news <news@group.com> wrote:
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> I was having problem compiling my custom RH9.0 2.4.20-18.9 kernel. Make
> modules kept failing. Then I read a post in this group about running make
> mrproper. Make modules then worked. Exactly what does it do? I tried to
> research this but have been unable to find an explanation I understand.
> thx.
make mrproper cleans up the kernel source tree
mrproper: clean archmrproper
find . \( -size 0 -o -name .depend \) -type f -print | xargs rm -f
rm -f $(MRPROPER_FILES)
rm -rf $(MRPROPER_DIRS)
$(MAKE) -C Documentation/DocBook mrproper
just inspect Makefile in /usr/src/$kerneltree/ and grep for mrproper
Alexander
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"Alexander Dalloz" <alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message
news:be5e22$1fr45$1@ID-2108.news.dfncis.de...quote:
> news <news@group.com> wrote:
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> make mrproper cleans up the kernel source tree
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> mrproper: clean archmrproper
> find . \( -size 0 -o -name .depend \) -type f -print | xargs rm -f
> rm -f $(MRPROPER_FILES)
> rm -rf $(MRPROPER_DIRS)
> $(MAKE) -C Documentation/DocBook mrproper
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> just inspect Makefile in /usr/src/$kerneltree/ and grep for mrproper
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> Alexander
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> Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany
> PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999
> PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
That's what I thought make clean did. Live and learn.
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| J.O. Aho 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| news wrote:
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'make clean' removes *.o and the fully compiled files, 'make mrproper' removes
files that has information about your system and the options that has been
choose in the 'make somethingconfig'.
//Aho
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"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:be5npl$1fejp$1@ID-130698.news.dfncis.de...quote:
> news wrote:
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> 'make clean' removes *.o and the fully compiled files, 'make mrproper'
removesquote:
> files that has information about your system and the options that has been
> choose in the 'make somethingconfig'.
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> //Aho
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Why does RH ship the kernel sources with system specific information which
forces users to run mrproper? I had an some idea from the make modules
failures that something "system specific" was being compiled in error but I
didn't know what to turn off or on in make menuconfig. I guess its
essential that mrproper is executed first, right?
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| J.O. Aho 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| news wrote:
quote:
> Why does RH ship the kernel sources with system specific information which
> forces users to run mrproper? I had an some idea from the make modules
> failures that something "system specific" was being compiled in error but I
> didn't know what to turn off or on in make menuconfig. I guess its
> essential that mrproper is executed first, right?
I'm not sure it has anything lke that, but if it has, it comes from the way
that the RPM packages is made (both binary and source packages are made at the
same time), I think even kernel.org do say that you should run 'make mrproper'
on a fresh source.
//Aho
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