Hello Danny & Mathieu, While looking for sources of contention on ci.guix.gnu.org, I found that “linux-libre-module-builder” leads to huuuuge trees in the store; performing deduplication on these trees takes ages, and more generally these big trees look unreasaonble to me.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ find /gnu/store/s9md49vjambvprpp5ba3aqvhxilw0w7k-linux-libre-module-builder-5.8.8|wc -l 85604 $ du -hs /gnu/store/s9md49vjambvprpp5ba3aqvhxilw0w7k-linux-libre-module-builder-5.8.8 1.1G /gnu/store/s9md49vjambvprpp5ba3aqvhxilw0w7k-linux-libre-module-builder-5.8.8 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Surely we don’t need that much just to build a kernel module. :-) (gnu build-system linux-module) has this: ;; TODO: Only preserve the minimum, i.e. [Kbuild], Kconfig, ;; scripts, include, ".config". Which files exactly are needed? Can we go ahead and implement this TODO? I understand the need to “cut corners” while trying things out, but I’d argue that this specific corner should have been restored before getting into master. Thanks, Ludo’.
