Re: just when I thought I'd seen it all...

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> I think "make mrproper" is redhat-specific...

Naw, it's been in the Makefile since 0.99 at the latest.  I did that
on my second kernel build ever ;-)  (TBH, I then went back to
DESQview/X for a year, Linux couldn't do Nihongo until sometime after
that.)  It's basically the equivalent of the GNU extraclean, which in
practice means trash autogenerated configuration files, including
./configure, Makefile.in and so on.  The kernel's conventions are
different, but it's damn hard to ensure that any config info as
high-level as, or higher than, a Makefile is consistent without such a
target.

Or do you mean that only Red Hat could distribute a kernel so bogus
that the only way to fix it is to make mrproper?  :-)

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