Subject: Re: Kernel compile 100 times faster (this sound provocating,doesnt it?:)
To: None <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca, jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@domino.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/07/1996 04:12:19
I do not agree with the idea of joining of all sources, but surely a
better dependency tree in the makefile that could make my new config
compile without removing all compile tree would be nice.
There's already a start to this (that wasn't present in all ports until
a few days ago) -- the `links' target. Basically, you do:
make links
in your kernel compile directory, and it looks for source files that
don't have any important #if's in them, and symlinks the object files
from ../GENERIC/foo.o to the current directory.
Unfortunately, there are so many scattered #if's right now that this
isn't very effective. It would be cool if someone cleaned up a few
of them.