From: Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:14:55 +0200

On 4/6/06, Anton Romanov <theli_at_ukr.net> wrote:
> i'm slightly confused ... why does 'make clean' make sources
> unusable? (for example it removes 'firmware' dir)

in fact, it does not 'make'. it only 'cleans'.
It erases everything that 'make' could use for an incremental build,
because some source-changes do not get detected by 'make' and so not
rebuild properly.
If the thing you are trying out is not working as expected, 'clean'
first, then rebuild it all.

~lImbus
Received on 2006-04-06