Re: [RFC PATCH] Add a 'minimal tree install' target

From: Goswin von Brederlow
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 12:44:25 EST


Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is a somewhat rough first-pass at making a 'minimal tree'
> installation target. This installs a partial source-tree which you
> can use to build external modules against. It feels pretty unclean
> but I'm not aware of a much better way to do some of this.
>
> This patch works for me, even when using O=<buildtree>. It probably
> needs further cleanups.
>
> Comments?

Ever looked at the debian packages and how they do it? They even split
out common files and specific files from the kernel build. Saves some
space if you build multiple flavours of the same kernel version.

MfG
Goswin
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