Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:11 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
BusyBox has been doing this for months now: "build at once" is one of our config options. I'd like to point out that gcc eats needs several hundred megabytes of ram to do this and you have no useful progress indicator between starting and ending. But the result is definitely smaller.

It isn't that bad when you're only building a few files at a time -- I
wouldn't suggest doing it for the whole kernel.
I suggest a new makefile target for this.

I.e. "make bzImage" as always for those who do development and
recompile after small changes/patches.
And a "make optImage" (optimized image) when building a
kernel for production use, when you believe compiling every file
and spending lots of extra time is worth it.

Helge Hafting
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux