Hi Bart, On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote: > > > > Well, that particular patch looks like it is for the debian-installer > > package which is not related to DOSEMU. However, I can use the same > > trick in my build script. I'm mainly curious why this only started > > happening in 1.1.5.7 -- I built 1.1.5.6 and previous with no > > modifications or extra pain needed. > > well the trick avoids using $(shell ... pwd) in Makefiles for each > recursive invocation of "make". $(shell) is fairly expensive; by reducing > the number of it to exactly one (instead of ~100 in 1.1.5.6) it was > possible to reduce the time to "make" a (nearly) built tree > significantly, on one PC by about 10 seconds from 15 to less than 5; and > Clarence Dang has seen even greater differences. > > For a user who compiles her/himself this doesn't matter that much but for > a developer who often makes a small change and then recompiles it saves a > lot of waiting.
Sounds reasonable to me, I've worked around it in my build script. See ya, -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
