Re: dosemu 1.1.5.7 (was Re: dosemu 1.1.5.6)

Ryan Underwood
2003-08-23T22:36:30Z

Hi Bart,

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> >
> > Well, that particular patch looks like it is for the debian-installer
> > package which is not related to DOSEMU. However, I can use the same
> > trick in my build script. I'm mainly curious why this only started
> > happening in 1.1.5.7 -- I built 1.1.5.6 and previous with no
> > modifications or extra pain needed.
>
> well the trick avoids using $(shell ... pwd) in Makefiles for each
> recursive invocation of "make". $(shell) is fairly expensive; by reducing
> the number of it to exactly one (instead of ~100 in 1.1.5.6) it was
> possible to reduce the time to "make" a (nearly) built tree
> significantly, on one PC by about 10 seconds from 15 to less than 5; and
> Clarence Dang has seen even greater differences.
>
> For a user who compiles her/himself this doesn't matter that much but for
> a developer who often makes a small change and then recompiles it saves a
> lot of waiting.

Sounds reasonable to me, I've worked around it in my build script.

See ya,

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