Re: auto-bk-get

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:09:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>Dan Aloni wrote:
>>
>>>For kernel developers which are BitKeeper users, 
>>>
>>>auto-bk-get is an on-demand 'bk get' libc wrapper tool.
>>>
>>>It means that you don't need to run 'bk -r get' in order to build 
>>>the kernel. Instead, you just run 'make config' or 'make bzImage', 
>>>using auto-bk-get in a clean repository and auto-bk-get will 
>>>only 'bk get' the files you need from the repository (one of my
>>>test cases showed only 2800 out of 14000 files were checked out). 
>>
>>
>>No offense, but, it would probably be easier to fix the few remaining 
>>places where the makefile system does not automatically check out the files.
>>
>>It works great for everything except the Kconfig stuff, IIRC.
> 
> 
> It's not just that. Does make and the build system alone allow you 
> to build in an entirely different tree? (i.e check out and recreate
> the directory structure somewhere else, leaving the repository clean or
> even on a read-only media).


Yes, that's Sam Ravnborg's (sp?) srcdir != objdir work.

	Jeff