Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel - take 3

William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-17T22:36:07Z

On Fri, 17 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> 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.

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:16:22PM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> I suppose you want ccache then. kbuild-2.5 may save two minutes of your
> one hour build. The current kbuild's problem is not that it recompiles too
> many files, but rather too few sometimes (in particular with modversions).
> (And yes, ccache won't work too well if you move your trees around, since
> *both* build systems use absolute paths. That needs fixing)

Hmm. That kind of blows. Well, someone else's problem (or is it?). I'll
take it for what it can do now and plod along.

Cheers,
Bill