On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:48:09PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > Wrt the original patch, I like it, one preliminary comment is that I think > symlinks are nicer than copying. They are faster, shouldn't cause any > trouble on NFS, make uses "stat" and not "lstat", so it gets the > timestamps right, too. And if you edit a Makefile/Kconfig in the source > tree, you rather want that to take effect immediately, I guess ;)
Second try on the script. Create symlinks as suggested, and optimised find a liitle. Sam #!/bin/sh # # This script is used to build a kernel from a separate directory. # The location of this script is assumed to be the root of # the kernel tree. # Usage: # kernel src located in: # ~/kernelsrc # compile in: # ~/compile # cd ~/compile <= Change to the directory where the compile shall take place # ../kernelsrc/kbuild # # Arguments to kbuild is the same as used to make in the kernel build # kbuild prints out SRCTREE and OBJTREE when started, and then makes a mirror # of relevant files from the kernelsrc. # files we do not care about in the kernel src RCS_FIND_IGNORE="-name SCCS -o -name BitKeeper -o -name .svn -o -name CVS" OBJTREE=$PWD cd `dirname $0` SRCTREE=$PWD cd $OBJTREE echo OBJTREE $OBJTREE echo SRCTREE $SRCTREE if [ "$SRCTREE" != "$OBJTREE" ]; then if [ -f $SRCTREE/.config -o -d $SRCTREE/include/asm ]; then echo '$SRCTREE contains generated files, please run "make mrproper" in the SRCTREE' else for a in `cd $SRCTREE; \ find \( $RCS_FIND_IGNORE \) -prune -o -name Makefile\* -o -name Kconfig\* -o -name defconfig`; do if [ ! -d `dirname $a` ]; then mkdir -p $a fi ln -fs $SRCTREE/$a $a done ( echo "srctree := $SRCTREE"; echo "objtree := $OBJTREE"; ) > .tmp_make_config touch Rules.make make $* fi else rm -f .tmp_make_config make $* fi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel