kernel building question

[Rob Lembree]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:37, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In my quest for total revision control of everything I do with my 
> environment, I commited the entire 2.4.19 kernel tree to my 
> repository.  During that process, I realized there are several 
> sub-hierarchies under the arch/ directory I'll almost certainly never 
> compile a kernel for such as everything other than i386.  
> 
> My question.  Can I just 'rm -rf' the sub-dirs I don't need so that 
> the only sub-dir of arch is 'i286' and still compile a useful kernel?

I assume that you mean 'i386'.

Sure, you can do that.  You can also blow away a lot of 
other architectures' support in include/, such as asm-mips
and so on.

Be careful with binaries -- you need to use -kb if you submit
binary data to CVS.

> Thanks,
> 
> Btw:	useful command tidbit, try:
> 		ls -m 

Cool.  Yet another thing that's great on Linux, but don't
expect it any place else!!  The more I use Linux, the more
that commercial *nix's look like antiques.

> 	sometime.  I don't know how many times I've come up with a 
> 	sed/awk/perl script to do exactly this :)
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