On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 04:40 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 03/16/2011 01:26 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > > On 03/16/2011 10:54 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: > >> > >> Op 16 mrt 2011, om 18:04 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven: > >> > >>> NOT FOR INCLUSION > >>> > >>> Before we include something like this, it needs review from folks like > >>> Koen and > >>> Gary to confirm it works in their environment as well. > >>> > >>> The existing infrastructure uses an external build tree which references > >>> the > >>> kernel source in the work dir. If run with rm work, building external > >>> modules > >>> will fail. > >>> > >>> This patch places a configured source tree in sysroots. Striking a balance > >>> between minimal size and minimal maintenance is difficult. A fully > >>> configured > >>> tree is about 500MB after a clean. This version leans on the side of > >>> caution and > >>> removes only the obviously unecessary parts of the source tree to conserve > >>> space, resulting in about 170MB. The arch directories would be some > >>> additional > >>> pruning we could do. Given examples from the devel package from > >>> distributions, I > >>> suspect this size could be reduced to 75MB or so, but at the cost of a > >>> much more > >>> complex recipe which is likely to require a great deal more maintenance > >>> to keep > >>> current with kernel releases. > >>> > >>> Care is also taken to clean the hostprogs in scripts, and the modules are > >>> responsible for building them as needed. Although it is unclear to me if > >>> this is > >>> really necessary, especially considering that modules put these bits back > >>> as > >>> soon as they compile. If we are not generating an sstate package, I > >>> suspect we > >>> can ignore these. > >>> > >>> Please try this with your modules and let me know how it does. I tried to > >>> take > >>> non linux-yocto kernel recipes into account, but I have only tested with > >>> linux-yocto and the hello-mod recipe so far. > >>> > >>> V2: o Address 000 perm quilt files (don't copy .pc dir) > >>> o Clear linux-yocto meta dir from sysroots > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart<[email protected]> > >> > >> This one works beautifully, so: > >> > >> Acked-by: Koen Kooi<[email protected]> > > > > Thanks Koen. > > > > Gary, can you give this version a spin? > > > > If it works, I'm going to suggest we take this as is and carefully prune > > away bits we don't need over time so we can get adequate testing across > > multiple archs, platforms, and > > modules. Same for the hostprogs cleaning bits. > > > > It also worked for me. Thanks - you can add > > Acked-by: Gary Thomas <[email protected]>
Thanks all, I'm going to merge this to master. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
