On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:48:34AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to compile processor-specific kernels for 2 machines, one
> > k7 and one pII. the compilation is difficult for some reason, I'm
> > having to do it over and over, and I'm running up against an annoying
> > feature of make-kpkg. If I try to change the "append-to-version"
> > value in the make-kpkg command after running make xconfig (to change
> > just a couple of variables), make-kpkg exits with an error ("I thought
> > we were building version x, but we seem to be building version x").
> > Anyone know what I can do to fix this error? It complicates and
> > vastly prolongs the build process, which tends to lead to additional
> > errors with someone like me.
>
> use ccache (instructions elsewhere, I'm afraid, I can't remember.
> possibly appending CC=ccache, or prefixing PATH=/usr/lib/ccache, to
> make-kpkg...) and do a make-kpkg clean between builds. This performs a
> clean on the source (bad from your POV as that means more building than
> necessary) but ccache will counter-act that. It also deletes some stamp
> files etc., which are the source of make-kpkg's complaints.
>
Speeding up recompilation with ccache:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/129
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
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