[PATCH build] Implement auto-clone.

[Trevor Woerner]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> What we could consider though is a minimal or default set that
> just gets the basic five or six modules that covers 99% of our testers
> (xserver, evdev, intel, etc.).

What would you like to see as an interface?

1. no interface - just build a known set by default
2. cmdline - specify the set of modules/applications to build on the
cmdline, maybe expand the "-o" option to allow multiple instances (if
it doesn't currently)
3. Kconfig/file - supply a file (perhaps with a fancy Kconfig
front-end) on the cmdline which contains the modules to build

In any case, given a way for the user to say: "build this set of
modules" I think it would be nice if the auto-clone feature were
available. If a user can define the set of modules to build, could
they be auto-cloned by default?

Obviously the build script would be smart enough to sort out the
dependencies itself, irrespective of the order the modules are
provided from the user.