Re: standalone kbuild's homepage?

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 01:49:20 EST


On Tuesday 29 April 2008 07:11, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:03:50AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Hi Sam, folks,
> >
> > IIRC apart from in-kernel build system there is a "standalone"
> > one, which is targeted at other projects wishing to reuse
> > this excellent infrastructure.
>
> Unfortunately not. I have hoped to find time/energy to
> extract the useful bits and do something so I could
> offer kbuild to other projects.
> But I do not see this happening soon :-(

So far busybox uses almost unmodified kernel kbuild,
mostly ignoring all the unused extra machinery (modules, System.map etc).

Works great. I mean, _really_ great. Thanks!

I found an old mail:

http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-September/024081.html

>Also I notes that you took scripts/Makefile.build verbatim.
>That file contains a lot of kernel cruft and you would be in a much
>better position using scripts/Kbuild.klibc from klibc.

Aha! this can be it.
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