From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 May 2002 17:44:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 May 2002 17:44:21 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:1197 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 May 2002 17:44:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:42:47 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: Wayne.Brown@altec.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel - take 3 Message-ID: <20020517214247.GA26374@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , Wayne.Brown@altec.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <86256BBC.0072F8A9.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> <3CE572BE.DF2E4406@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:14:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > That's you. On May 15 and May 16 I rebuilt the kernel over > 150 times. Nice build system. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:14:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The deteriorating performance of gcc and the tendency of > the current build system to needlessly recompile stuff are > acute problems. ccache saves me probably one hour per day. A build on my laptop takes well over an hour. This is not useful for actually getting things done. I'm all for mitigating build time in such cases, by kbuild-2.5 and perhaps other methods. Cheers, Bill