fixing bbox build system

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 5 20:30:36 UTC 2006


On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:15, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 8:11 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > >Also some more peculiar build modes (CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX,
> > >CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE) may be broken.
> > 
> > Let's drop CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX for now. CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE is
> > something i want to keep since it creates a smaller binary. Doesn't the
> > kernel support this too, perhaps under a different name?
> 
> The kernel guys have poked at adding it (David Woodhouse, I think) but the 
> patches haven't been merged yet that I'm aware of.  Also, they way they build 
> is to do a directory at a time.  (You know how we're building various .a 
> files and then linking them together?  Their build-at-once does each .a file 
> in one gulp, not the whole project.)

Sure, kernelwide

find -name *.c | xargs gcc

would devour RAM like crazy 8)
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