Re: Faster way to run through building single modules

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:38:19PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Feb 10 2008 20:28, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:51:29PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> 
> >> I was wondering whether there is a shortcut in kbuild I can take if I 
> >> just want to rebuild one module. Currently, I have:
> >> 
> >> make net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.ko
> >
> >Fool kbuild to think this is an external module using:
> >make M=`pwd` net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.ko
> >
> >That should do the trick.
> 
> How would I combine that with O=? Not quite doing the right thing yet.

O=tells where to find the kernel output files.
We do not have a possibility to do so for external
modules - so they will alwys build in same dir as the source.

Bad luck :-(

	Sam
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