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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904241235040.12781@aurora.sdinet.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:37:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestions request for speed-up kernel compilation
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> I'm a kernel newbie and I would be very happy to receive some tips
> about kernel compilation from experienced developers.
>
> I have recently elaborated some trivial patches. For each one I have
> done a build test at minimum and I find myself spend a lot of time
> waiting my Core Duo to accomplish this task. Make is a very smart tool
> but after a git pull or a git fetch origin/git reset --hard origin it
> can't help as desired.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a clustered compilation farm under my control. :-)
>
> Anyone can suggest me how mitigate that issue?
What helps me with this is using ccache (compiler cache) - it keeps the
compile results inside a cache and when compiling the same file again it
fetches the result from there.
on debian it is just:
apt-get install ccache
export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH
...work on kernel like normal...
c'ya
sven
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