On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:51:04AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > >> The makefile does not abort on missing programs (strings) or missing header > >> files. > > > >You aren't the first person this week to report that make World > >doesn't stop when it finds a problem (the other person was actually > >complaining that some things didn't get built until make install). > > > >This is deliberate. make World takes long enough the run > >that we usually go away and do something else. > >We find it convenient that it builds everything that we can. > >Then when we have fixed any problems, building and installing > >the rest doesn't take another cup of coffee. > > Ugh, yeah what a PITA. > > make World WORLDOPTS= > make install install.man > > .. takes ~=20 minutes on a bad day, including untarring, and also > calculating dependancies, and tarring up final packaging. ;o)
Only 20? Here at KurtWerks, it takes just over an hour on one machine, just over 45 minutes on another. > <sigh> It'd be nice to upgrade this slow boat anchor. Who wants > to wait 20 minutes? I'll see your boat anchor and raise you two anvils... Kurt _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
