4.1. Dependencies

The next step is to create the necessary include files and generate dependency information. This step is only required for the 2.4.x kernel tree.

$ make dep

Lots of messages will scroll by. Depending on the speed of your machine and on what options you chose, this may take several minutes to complete. Once the dependency information is created we can clean up some miscellaneous object files. This step is required for all versions of the kernel.

$ make clean