Re: how to configure/build a kernel in a separate directory?

[Sean Neakums]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>   is there an easy way to configure/build one or both of a 2.4 and 2.6 
> kernel in a totally separate directory from the source directory itself?
>
>   i'd like to have a totally pristine ("make mrproper"ed) source tree,
> write-protected, readable by all, so that several developers can 
> independently configure and build their own kernels without stepping on 
> each other.

This isn't really what you want, but you can use 'cp -rl' to build a
hard-linked tree from the pristine read-only tree and build there.
This will at least address the space issue.
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