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[markgray@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Gray)]

zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 
> 
> Hubert Mantel wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 03, zentara wrote:
> 
> > > Did you do a " make mrproper" before trying to compile?
> > > It cleans up the source.
> > 
> > Among other things, "make mrproper" deletes include/asm. So this does not
> > only not help, but will lead to exact this problem.
> >                                                                   -o)
> >     Hubert Mantel              Goodbye, dots...                   /\\
> >                                                                  _\_v
> 
> My guns arn't big enough to go up against you Herbert; BUT
> quoting from the KERNEL HOW-TO
> ***************************************************************************
> 4.3.  Other ``make''ables
> 
>   `make mrproper' will do a more extensive `clean'ing.  It is sometimes
>   necessary; you may wish to do it at every patch. `make mrproper' will
>   also delete your configuration file, so you might want to make a
>   backup of it (.config) if you see it as valuable.
> 
> *****************************************************************************
> 
> I've had to use it to clean out old configurations, and it always leaves
> the source functional for a new "make menuconfig".

/usr/src/linux$ find -name Makefile|xargs grep menuconfig:
./Makefile:menuconfig: include/linux/version.h symlinks
/usr/src/linux$ find -name Makefile|xargs grep -A3 symlinks:
./Makefile:symlinks:
./Makefile-     rm -f include/asm
./Makefile-     ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-$(ARCH) asm)
./Makefile-
/usr/src/linux$ 

make menuconfig is what makes the symlink.

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