[ale] hmm, some ?'s

[Dunlap, Randy]

make clean is a subset of make mrproper.
I.e., make mrproper does clean and more.

You don't need to make clean or mrproper every time
unless you just want to rebuild *Everything*.

~Randy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Brooks [mailto:dbrooks at comstar.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 9:45 AM
> To: Tri; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] hmm, some ?'s
> 
> 
> Tri wrote:
> > 
> > I was wondering what these files do. I find them in my 
> /boot directory:
> > boot.b
> > boot.0302
> > System.map
> > map
> > chain.b
> > os2_d.b
> > 
> Not so sure myself -- I just know not to touch them.  Doing so will
> surely cause instant death.
> 
> 
> > also I recompile my kernel like this.
> > make mrproper
> > "Here I run xconfig and configure the kernel"
> > make dep
> > make zImage
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> > cp arch/i386/boot zImage /boot/vmlinuz-"kernelversion"
> > "then I edit my lilo.conf"
> > lilo
> > reboot
> > 
> 
> Looks like you're missing a 'make clean'in there after your 'make dep'
> command.  Also, if you're compiling a newer kernel (i.e., 2.0.36+ or
> 2.2.x), you're almost sure to need to run 'make bzImage' instead of
> 'make zImage' simply because of the sheer size of the kernel produced
> after compiling.
> 
> 
> 
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