On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I haven't looked at it in detail, but I think files in memory are kept > around for a while until it's needed for something else. About the only > way to really get repeatability is to reboot between tries and that > isn't realistic. > That accords with what I thought.
> In any case, I use a script like the following one for each program. > Installing the package on /tmp allows for repeatability in size, if not > SBU time. For trial builds, I mostly use DESTDIR (or INSTALL_ROOT), so that I can, if needed, compare what got installed with different options. I don't normally bother with a script, just separately time the various stages (unlike my own builds, which time from configure to the end in whole seconds). Then du -sk for both the source and the installed files. Nice script though. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
