[yocto] Using tmpfs for WORKDIR

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Aug 13 09:39:17 PDT 2013


On 13 August 2013 17:37, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems reasonable especially for folks who don't want to keep intermediate objects around
> in build tree. I also have a setup where I build in tmpfs. I think it would be a nice step
> to write a wiki document explaining steps that are needed to configure your system to use tmpfs so anyone can
> try it out and with a bit of added explanation on how much ram is minimally needed and so on.
> and we can then keep improving this document.

Agreed.  It's interesting that so many people are building this way,
so we should consolidate the best practises.

Do you build with TMPDIR in tmpfs, or just WORKDIR in tmpfs?

Ross



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