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SubjectRe: Symbol links to only needed and targeted source files
On 1/3/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:14:43PM +0100, Pelle Svensson wrote:
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > You misunderstand me I think, I already using a separate output directory.
> > What I like to do is a separate 'source tree' with only valid files
> > for my configuration. In that way, when I use grep for instance,
> > I would only hit valid files and not 50 other files which are
> > not in the current build configuration.
>
> I see.
> There is nothing in kbuild that will help you to achieve this.
> If you build the kernel and parse all .*.cmd files then
> you can build a complete list of files used and create your
> symlinked tree.
> But then you need a fully build kernel to do so.
>
> I see no easy way to get the info without building the kernel
> and if we do this only as a preprocessing step then we will
> most likely not integrate it in kbuild since the user base will
> be small. But if you hack up something lets take a look at it.
>
> Sam
>

Hi Sam,

Ok, at least I know I'm not doing double work.

/Thanks
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