On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:27 PM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Leonardo Bras wrote:
Sorry, I was not very clear at my reasons why this change is important,
I will try to briefly explain the whole story.
Some weeks ago I was trying to solve a task that needed to change some
compiling options, build the whole kernel (allyesconfig) and look for
errors. The problem was: It would take a long time to build everything
in my computer. And many friends with slimmer laptops would take much
longer.
It seems to me that you shouldn't need expensive optimization for
continuous integration. In theory that could make a big difference though
I admit to no experience of build farms.
Have you looked at ccache? It will save you from having to recompile any
files not changed.
You could also leverage all of your laptops together using distcc.
HTH.
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Both ccache and distcc seem very interesting,
I will take my time to study them better as they can solve some situations
I face. Thanks for sharing!
Still, I believe my patchset is relevant, as it would enable people to rebuild
the whole kernel (with build flags changes, for example) at the cost of only
git-pushing the changes to a fork of my Gitlab repo, and waiting 3 hours.
Thanks for helping!
