This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri Apr 26 15:13:53 2024 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264851AbUFHGcj (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 02:32:39 -0400 Received: from smtp9.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.22]:3404 "EHLO mwinf0901.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264893AbUFHGcY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 02:32:24 -0400 Received: from michelle1.michelle-is.com (AStrasbourg-251-1-29-125.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.126.147.125]) by mwinf0901.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id 43CA318001AB for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:32:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by michelle1.michelle-is.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:32:24 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:32:23 +0200 From: Michelle Konzack To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: how to configure/build a kernel in a separate directory? Message-Id: <20040608063223.GB10986@freenet.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Message-Flag: Improper configuration of Outlook is a breeding ground for viruses. Please take care your Client is configured correctly. Greetings MIchelle. X-Disclaimer-1: Eine weitere Verwendung oder die Veroeffentlichung X-Disclaimer-2: dieser Mail oder dieser Mailadresse ist nur mit der X-Disclaimer-3: Einwilligung des Autors gestattet. Organisation: Michelle's Selbstgebrautes X-Operating-System: Linux michelle1 2.4.26-1-686 X-Uptime: 08:08:48 up 12 days, 22:02, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 2004-06-07 17:00:26, schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > is there an easy way to configure/build one or both of a 2.4 and 2.6=20 >kernel in a totally separate directory from the source directory itself? YES=20 > i'd like to have a totally pristine ("make mrproper"ed) source tree, >write-protected, readable by all, so that several developers can=20 >independently configure and build their own kernels without stepping on=20 >each other. currently, they all check out their own copy of the source=20 >via CVS, which starts to take up a lot of space. Right > obviously, it would be great if they could all set up some kind of build= =20 >structure where they could do their own configuration and build in their= =20 >personal work directories, so that *all* generated results (header files, >object files, etc.) are placed in their work directory -- nothing should >be generated in the kernel source tree itself. > > i'm suspecting that, if there are solutions, they will be different from= =20 >2.4 to 2.6, so i'll take whatever solutions i can get. others have=20 >suggested using gnu make in combination with "VPATH", but i'm not sure=20 >that's going to work, as VPATH deals strictly with pre-requisites in other= =20 >directories, not executable programs like scripts. /usr/X11R6/bin/lndir If you use Debian GNU/Linux, the file is in the Package: xutils ____ (stdin) _________________________________________________________ / | LNDIR(1) LNDIR(1) | =20 | =20 | =20 | N=08NA=08AM=08ME=08E | lndir - create a shadow directory of symbolic links to | another directory tree | =20 | S=08SY=08YN=08NO=08OP=08PS=08SI=08IS=08S | l=08ln=08nd=08di=08ir=08r [ -=08-s=08si=08il=08le=08en=08nt=08t ]= [ -=08-i=08ig=08gn=08no=08or=08re=08el=08li=08in=08nk=08ks=08s ] _=08f_=08= r_=08o_=08m_=08d_=08i_=08r [ _=08t_=08o_=08d_=08i_=08r ] | =20 | D=08DE=08ES=08SC=08CR=08RI=08IP=08PT=08TI=08IO=08ON=08N | The _=08l_=08n_=08d_=08i_=08r program makes a shadow copy _=08t_= =08o_=08d_=08i_=08r of a directory | tree _=08f_=08r_=08o_=08m_=08d_=08i_=08r_=08, except that the sha= dow is not populated with | real files but instead with symbolic links pointing at the | real files in the _=08f_=08r_=08o_=08m_=08d_=08i_=08r directory t= ree. This is usually | useful for maintaining source code for different machine | architectures. You create a shadow directory containing | links to the real source, which you will have usually | mounted from a remote machine. You can build in the | shadow tree, and the object files will be in the shadow | directory, while the source files in the shadow directory | are just symlinks to the real files. | =20 | This scheme has the advantage that if you update the | source, you need not propagate the change to the other | architectures by hand, since all source in all shadow | directories are symlinks to the real thing: just cd to the | shadow directory and recompile away. | =20 | The _=08t_=08o_=08d_=08i_=08r argument is optional and defaults t= o the current | directory. The _=08f_=08r_=08o_=08m_=08d_=08i_=08r argument m= ay be relative (e.g., | ../src) and is relative to _=08t_=08o_=08d_=08i_=08r (not the cu= rrent direc=AD | tory). | =20 | Note that RCS, SCCS, CVS and CVS.adm directories are not | shadowed. | =20 | If you add files, simply run _=08l_=08n_=08d_=08i_=08r again. Ne= w files will | be silently added. Old files will be checked that they | have the correct link. | =20 | Deleting files is a more painful problem; the symlinks | will just point into never never land. | =20 | If a file in _=08f_=08r_=08o_=08m_=08d_=08i_=08r is a symbolic = link, _=08l_=08n_=08d_=08i_=08r will make | the same link in _=08t_=08o_=08d_=08i_=08r rather than making a l= ink back to | the (symbolic link) entry in _=08f_=08r_=08o_=08m_=08d_=08i_= =08r_=08. The -=08-i=08ig=08gn=08no=08or=08re=08el=08li=08in=08nk=08ks=08s | flag changes this behavior. | =20 | X Version 11 Release 6.5 LNDIR(1) \______________________________________________________________________ >rday Greetings Michelle --=20 Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/=20 Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.pgp" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxV13C0FPBMSS+BIRAmnIAJ9YySAU1l7AO1Zkw1DMfe5ICzD4qQCgk3WJ Ee5IskREsCh3VsZtRx2GnF4= =eUFN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/