From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Gatliff Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:22:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4851CBE9.9090204@billgatliff.com> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <8bd0f97a0806120905u532ce5f9sf231e185173de791@mail.gmail.com> <200806121925.35883.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200806121925.35883.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley wrote: > I just did a "make distclean" on a qemu tree I had lying around. On my 1.7 > ghz 64 bit laptop, it took 9.2 seconds to figure out it had nothing to do, > just because it had to recurse into so many subdirectories to do it. Which is precisely why recursive makes are considered bad. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com