From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to configure/build a kernel in a separate directory?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:33:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uy8mz3vff.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406071653200.21938@localhost.localdomain> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:00:26 -0400 (EDT)")
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
> is there an easy way to configure/build one or both of a 2.4 and 2.6
> kernel in a totally separate directory from the source directory itself?
>
> i'd like to have a totally pristine ("make mrproper"ed) source tree,
> write-protected, readable by all, so that several developers can
> independently configure and build their own kernels without stepping on
> each other.
This isn't really what you want, but you can use 'cp -rl' to build a
hard-linked tree from the pristine read-only tree and build there.
This will at least address the space issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-07 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-07 21:00 Robert P. J. Day
2004-06-07 21:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-07 21:52 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-06-07 21:33 ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2004-06-07 23:28 ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-06-07 21:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-06-08 6:32 ` Michelle Konzack
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