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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> 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?
Bart> It may be possible to do the toolchain build in stages
Bart> rather than all at once. You will need to do a single
Bart> configure to produce a complete build tree. Then you should
Bart> be able to run "make all install" in each subdirectory,
Bart> using the order defined in the top-level makefile, followed
Bart> by a "make clean" to free up the disk space again. It will
Bart> be a rather tedious process, and occasionally you may have
Bart> to fix up a couple of things by hand, but there is a good
Bart> chance it will work.
I have since been informed that there is actually an alternative and
possibly more robust way of doing this sort of thing. The top-level
Makefile provides targets such as all-gcc and install-gcc.
Therefore you should be able to do something like the following at the
top-level of the toolchain build tree
make all-libiberty install-libiberty clean-libiberty
make all-texinfo install-texinfo clean-texinfo
...
This process is not going to be less tedious than what I suggested
earlier, but it may avoid a few problems here and there.
Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer