[LEDE-DEV] How do you develop (compile) LEDE efficiently?

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 01:58 -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> > > > > > "Rafał" == Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Rafał> On 7 November 2016 at 00:40, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have a 16-core build box which I connect to over ssh.  I use scp to
> > > move images to devices.  I have a testbed with ethernet connections
> > > to the build box and serial consoles on most if not all of them.
> 
> Rafał> But what about development with modifying files in build_dir?
> Rafał> That's the most tricky part for me.
> 
> I ssh into the build machine and use whatever my favorite editor of the
> moment is (vi or emancs) and modify files.  I don't understand the
> problem.
> 
> I've even been known to load emacs with X11 over a dialup connection
> with ssh X forwarding (20 years ago).  It took a while to start up, but
> was generally pretty responsive once started.  In an environment with
> flakey network, that could be painful.  GNU screen and
> persistent/reconnectable screen sessions on the build machine can help
> smooth things out.

This is what tramp-mode is for.

emacs /buildhost:/home/dwmw2/git/lede/...

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dwmw2
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