Re: How to speed up 'automake'

2022-05-21 Thread Karl Berry
Fancy doing it? Jim agreed :) Yeah, sorry. Other priority things have intervened :(. I have a mild hope of getting to it by tomorrow. If someone else wants to make the commit, certainly fine by me :). -k

Re: How to speed up 'automake'

2022-05-21 Thread Sam James
> On 3 May 2022, at 22:57, Karl Berry wrote: > >I see no reason why mv would be so crucial. > > Hmm, I guess you're right. Thanks for the analysis. > > The purpose of the stamp files is to avoid partial files being written > (and screwing up future makes), but if the file is zero bytes,

Re: How to speed up 'automake'

2022-05-21 Thread Karl Berry
Unrelated to Jan's depend.am change, but it turns out that a previous change broke make distcheck (768 failures). I don't feel right about committing anything else until that is fixed. Error below. Jim (or anyone), can you easily advise? I haven't delved into this part of things before. (Not sure

Re: How to speed up 'automake'

2022-05-21 Thread Sam James
> On 22 May 2022, at 02:32, Karl Berry wrote: > > Unrelated to Jan's depend.am change, but it turns out that a previous > change broke make distcheck (768 failures). I don't feel right about > committing anything else until that is fixed. > > Error below. Jim (or anyone), can you easily