Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:43:58 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: auto-bk-get |
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Dan Aloni wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:09:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Dan Aloni wrote: >> >>>For kernel developers which are BitKeeper users, >>> >>>auto-bk-get is an on-demand 'bk get' libc wrapper tool. >>> >>>It means that you don't need to run 'bk -r get' in order to build >>>the kernel. Instead, you just run 'make config' or 'make bzImage', >>>using auto-bk-get in a clean repository and auto-bk-get will >>>only 'bk get' the files you need from the repository (one of my >>>test cases showed only 2800 out of 14000 files were checked out). >> >> >>No offense, but, it would probably be easier to fix the few remaining >>places where the makefile system does not automatically check out the files. >> >>It works great for everything except the Kconfig stuff, IIRC. > > > It's not just that. Does make and the build system alone allow you > to build in an entirely different tree? (i.e check out and recreate > the directory structure somewhere else, leaving the repository clean or > even on a read-only media).
Yes, that's Sam Ravnborg's (sp?) srcdir != objdir work.
Jeff
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