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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:07:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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Subject: RE: "make distclean" doesn't remove generated MLO file
To: "Premi, Sanjeev" <premi@ti.com>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Premi, Sanjeev wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:33 PM
> > To: Premi, Sanjeev
> > Cc: U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)
> > Subject: RE: "make distclean" doesn't remove generated MLO file
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Premi, Sanjeev wrote:
> >
> > > I usually compile both stages together with a 'make clean' in
> > > between, hence decided to preserve MLO. Makes it easy to copy both
> > > MLO and barebox.bin at same time.
> >
> >   is there any sort of requirement about cleaning in between those two
> > steps?  if there is, that's a potential "gotcha" that should be
> > clearly documented.
>
> No "gotcha" that I know of - but just a habit!

  i figured as much.  but under the circumstances, i think removing
MLO should be part of CLEAN_FILES given its obvious relationship to
things like barebox.bin.  philosophically, it just makes more sense.
and on that note, i will now shut up about it.

rday

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