On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:13:38PM -0500, John Maier wrote:
> What does the 'make depend' do for you before (re)building a kernel?
> 
> I've always wondered.

create a .depend file (and a few more for the lib/* subdirectories) which
contains the dependencies, so that you can rebuild the kernel later after
source changes without "make clean".

	-is