[ale] Regarding Kernel Operations

[Geoffrey]

stephen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:41:55PM -0600, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> 
>>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>
>>>When you do a kernel/modules compile, from where all does source, etc.
>>>get pulled to make the final result?   Reason I ask is, if you want to
>>>do your compiling on another machine to speed up the process, what all
>>>needs to make the trip?  Is it just the kernel source tree or are there
>>>things in /usr/lib or elsewhere that would have to be brought over and
>>>pointed to somehow?
>>>
>>The kernel is built, top to bottom, using only the code in the
>>kernel source tree.
>>
> 
> Actually, there are some source files in scripts/, such as your mkdep
> utility, and other utilities under some of the arch/ branches for
> converting elf to a.out and making tftp boot images that include headers
> from libc.

But scripts and arch are under the /usr/src/linux tree.

> 
> stephen
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