From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760130AbXINQoX (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:44:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755400AbXINQoK (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:44:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De ([134.2.12.5]:63387 "EHLO mx1.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbXINQoJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:44:09 -0400 From: Goswin von Brederlow To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: LKML , davej@redhat.com, Sam Ravnborg , Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add a 'minimal tree install' target References: <20070912232534.GA26868@puku.stupidest.org> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070912232534.GA26868@puku.stupidest.org> (Chris Wedgwood's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:25:34 -0700") Message-ID: <87ir6dqjsb.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wedgwood writes: > This is a somewhat rough first-pass at making a 'minimal tree' > installation target. This installs a partial source-tree which you > can use to build external modules against. It feels pretty unclean > but I'm not aware of a much better way to do some of this. > > This patch works for me, even when using O=. It probably > needs further cleanups. > > Comments? Ever looked at the debian packages and how they do it? They even split out common files and specific files from the kernel build. Saves some space if you build multiple flavours of the same kernel version. MfG Goswin