From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 Changes doc update.
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:58:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211175810.GC2612@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021211172559.GA8613@suse.de>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:25:59PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> Kernel build system.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - Versus 2.4, the build system has been much improved.
> You should notice quicker builds, and less spontaneous rebuilds
> of files on subsequent builds from already built trees.
> - make xconfig now requires the qt libraries.
> - Make menuconfig/oldconfig has no user-visible changes other than speed,
> whilst numerous improvements have been made.
> - Several new debug targets exist: 'allyesconfig' 'allnoconfig' 'allmodconfig'.
> - For infomation: The above improvements are not CML2 / kbuild-2.5 related.
I think the coolest things (to me) of the new build system need to be
noted too,
- "make" is now the preferred target; it does <arch-zimage> and modules.
- "make -jN" is now the preferred parallel-make execution. Do not
bother to provide "MAKE=xxx".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 17:25 2.5 Changes doc update Dave Jones
2002-12-11 17:54 ` Roger Luethi
2002-12-11 18:07 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-11 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-11 18:07 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-11 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-11 20:28 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-12-11 18:18 ` Anders Gustafsson
2002-12-11 19:42 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 19:46 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 21:38 ` Mark Fasheh
2002-12-12 1:09 ` Ian Wienand
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-11 17:38 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-12-11 19:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 17:57 Margit Schubert-While
2002-12-11 18:30 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-12 3:43 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-12-13 4:33 SL Baur
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