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>>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Porter <kenneth_porter@kensingtonlabs.com> writes:
Kenneth> More an NT problem than an eCos problem: I'm having
Kenneth> trouble building eCos because I keep running out of disk
Kenneth> space.
Kenneth> I've got a 2gb FAT16 partition, so the cluster size
Kenneth> sucks. I've been brutally pruning stuff off the drive but
Kenneth> I still haven't finished building the tools because of
Kenneth> the production of many small files.
Kenneth> How do others handle this? Is there a way to overlay
Kenneth> another (possibly compressing) filesystem on the FAT16
Kenneth> partition to give me better use of the space?
It may be possible to do the toolchain build in stages rather than all
at once. You will need to do a single configure to produce a complete
build tree. Then you should be able to run "make all install" in each
subdirectory, using the order defined in the top-level makefile,
followed by a "make clean" to free up the disk space again. It will be
a rather tedious process, and occasionally you may have to fix up a
couple of things by hand, but there is a good chance it will work.
Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer