Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 9/25/2011 2:42 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Stephen Powell [110924 14:13 -0400]:
>
> > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
> > > What do you mean by "kernel-package"? Debian's vanilla kernel?
> >
> > "kernel-package" is the name of a Debian package, as in
> >
> >     aptitude install kernel-package
>
> Isn't [1] the proper way to build Debian kernels?
>
> [1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html

As has already been discussed, this is the "new" recommended way to 
build a Debian kernel.  The instructions on that page 'silently' changed 
not terribly that long ago.  The build instructions on that page used to 
tell us to use 'make-kpkg'.  Note that this new method

make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.1.0 deb-pkg

did not exist in the days of 2.6.18 to 2.6.21, which is when these 
command line examples were written.  IIRC this deb-pkg method was 
introduced in kernel 2.6.32 or 2.6.34.  It is included in the pristine 
kernel kernel source tarball.  Thus you don't have to install any Debian 
kernel building packages on your system in order to build a custom 
kernel.  This is likely one of the reasons this is the recommended 
method now, since most everything you need is in the vanilla tarball.

--
Stan