Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: source dependencies cleanup? (fwd) | Date | 7 Dec 1996 01:15:48 +0100 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, article <9612050407.AA29548@scooter>, Jim Nance <jlnance@avanticorp.com> writes: > > > This all works out perfectly well. Well... almost. The big advantage of the > > latter is that you scan b.h only once; gcc scans it twice. The big > > disadvantage is that you can't keep your kernel sources on a readonly > > partition. > > Well you can't put the kernel sources on a ro partition anyway because > the .o files have to go into the directories with the .c files. This
Wrong. You can just cp --rec --sym /cdrom/src/linux /usr/src/linux to create a read-write /usr/src/linux with a heap of symlinks in them which point to the CD-ROM.
This used to work... but the mkdep step was a whole lot slower. Whatever. I've since switched to keeping all my sources under a CVS tree, anyway. :-/
> Rules.make file it was my intention to fix this. Unfortunatly having > a child consumed much more of my time than I though it would, so I have
I do know about _that_ problem. :-/
Anyway, your scheme _is_ used by others, most notably by the GNU libc.
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