From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269926AbTGKMch (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:32:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269922AbTGKM3w (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:29:52 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:59339 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269915AbTGKM31 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:29:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0EB10E.6070500@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:43:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Aloni CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: auto-bk-get References: <20030710184429.GA28366@callisto.yi.org> <3F0DD5F6.5060302@pobox.com> <20030711052539.GA9586@callisto.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <20030711052539.GA9586@callisto.yi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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