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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:54, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> But my point is that there is a good use of different configurations
> based on the same src.
I think that your example for testing is the most valid one.
In development, you normally have different source trees (hardlinked if you
don't have a terabyte of hard drive space to spare), and use an editor that
breaks hard-links (eg, emacs). You might as well build in the source
directory, since you'll likely keep reworking it.
In release testing (aka release engineering, or more accurately: release
fumbling-in-the-dark), you need to test a few different configurations. Sure,
you could just build a set of symlink or hardlink trees, but it'd be very
useful to be able to "make multiconfigs" and have a representative set of
kernels built (either for later testing, or at least to ensure that the new
kernel will build without modules, without networking, without IDE, and so
on). Sure, it will take a while if you build everything, but that is why
God^WTridge gave us ccache.
Brad
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