Re: Suggestions request for speed-up kernel compilation

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Apr 24 2009 - 10:02:36 EST


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:57:35AM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry for my bad English.
>
> I'm a kernel newbie and I would be very happy to receive some tips
> about kernel compilation from experienced developers.
>
> I have recently elaborated some trivial patches. For each one I have
> done a build test at minimum and I find myself spend a lot of time
> waiting my Core Duo to accomplish this task. Make is a very smart tool
> but after a git pull or a git fetch origin/git reset --hard origin it
> can't help as desired.

ccache, for normal times, as suggested in other reply. But if you or
mainline or something you've pulled change the headers, there's not much
to be done, unfortunately...
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