Re: [PATCH v2] builddeb: remove debian/files before build

Riku Voipio
2015-09-16T06:55:06Z

On 15 September 2015 at 22:11, Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> wrote:
> On 2015.09.15 11:22 Kalle Valo wrote:
>> <riku.voipio@linaro.org> writes:
>>> From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> As debian/files keeps accumulating entries, the changes file
>>> will end up growing indefinelty. Remove the file in clean
>>> rule and before build starts.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
>>> Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>

>> Thanks, I had the same problem and this fixed it.
>> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

> I tested also. Thanks.

Michal, can you get this as fix for 4.3, since this is a regression?

Riku

> For an incremental compile, where only one source file
> has changed, the time went from 7 minutes and 47 seconds
> to 4 minutes and 33 seconds on my test server.
> And the spew of warnings and such are gone.
>
> For reference a clean compile typically takes about
> 23 minutes.
>
> The overhead for making the .changes file is now on the
> order of 2 to 4 seconds.
>
> Obviously, results will vary widely for others, depending
> on their hardware.
>
>