Re: [tlug] Re: compile kernel from cd

[Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@example.com>]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:34:55AM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> It's not possible unless you want to rewrite the kernel build system :-)

It's possible, just messy:

mkdir $BUILD_DIR
cd $SOURCE_DIR
find . -type d -exec mkdir $BUILD_DIR/{} \;
find . -type f -exec ln -s $SOURCE_DIR/{} $BUILD_DIR/{} \;
cd $BUILD_DIR
make config
make dep clean bzImage

The above method works for damned near anything.  Absolute paths must be used.

-- Chris
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