[RFC] Updating busybox config/build system to match current kernel system
Denis Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 2 21:55:39 UTC 2006
On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:35, Rob Landley wrote:
> The kernel only needs directory setup when doing the .config stage. I have
> previously used:
>
> make -C ../linux-2.6.17.11 O=`pwd` allnoconfig
There is a problem: __FILE__ resolves to _full pathname_ then (!!!).
You get maybe tens of kilobytes of bloat into your kernel.
Symlinking entire source into build dir with cp -sR does
the same without requiring complex build machinery AND
without this bug.
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