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David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:11 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > >> BusyBox has been doing this for months now: "build at once" is one of our >> config options. I'd like to point out that gcc eats needs several hundred >> megabytes of ram to do this and you have no useful progress indicator between >> starting and ending. But the result is definitely smaller. >> > > It isn't that bad when you're only building a few files at a time -- I > wouldn't suggest doing it for the whole kernel. > I suggest a new makefile target for this. I.e. "make bzImage" as always for those who do development and recompile after small changes/patches. And a "make optImage" (optimized image) when building a kernel for production use, when you believe compiling every file and spending lots of extra time is worth it. Helge Hafting - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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