make mrproper, etc

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you.

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:40:57 -0800
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:35:16PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> ...
> >> make mrproper
> >
> >this does the same as make clean (removes *.o files) but also removes
> >symlinks down in include/
> 
> Actually I think this is used as a starting point for all builds, and
> copies the default configuration to the .config file.  I haven't looked at
> other distributions, but Caldera's puts the build configuration(s) properly
> in their SPRMS so that mrproper will get you started at the same point as
> their kernel-binaries RPM.
> 
> It's been a while since I built specialized kernel-binaries from Caldera's
> SRPMS so I don't remember the exact details (e.g. file names).
> 
> Bill
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