Joe Kuan wrote: > Hi all, > > I have sent this to opensolaris-help but no response. Hopefully I > can get some help here. > > I am trying to experiment the OpenSolaris kernel build. I have > previously built all the kernel 'nightly opensolaris.sh' successfully. > Then I issued 'touch' command to a few C files to see whether the > build system can spot and build changed file. > > I did 'nightly -i opensolaris.sh' and it still took a long time to > build the kernel - like 37 mins. It seems to me it shouldn't take that > long for just recompiling a few files and relinking the whole kernel. > > Is there anyway I can make the build faster? As in the future, I need > to constantly modify & rebuild the kernel.
Not particularly. The build process is fairly inefficient at the moment. There are a few long-term projects and some more immediate ones that are being worked on to help speed up the build process. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
