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Hi,
what is "make dep" actually doing? What are those dependency files for. A friend of mine insists on his opinion that it is enough to make bzImage after reconfiguring the kernel. I always do a "make dep" after configuration 'cause it says to do so.
Regards,
Axel
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Quoted 6 lines · Axel H. Siebenwirth
Hi,
what is "make dep" actually doing? What are those dependency files for. A friend of mine insists on his opinion that it is enough to make bzImage after reconfiguring the kernel. I always do a "make dep" after configuration 'cause it says to do so.
Make dep (depend) means what it says, the process looks at what you have choosen in your config file and then creates a file called .depend in each source directory, .depend contains locations of header files called by each option you choose.
Basicly thats it in a nutshell.
In fact your friend (like yourself) is correct, if you do not do 'make dep' it will be done for you as make is told to check that it has been done in the Makefile.
I belive its because long ago one "had" to type make dep, but thats long gone.
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Regards,
Axel
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