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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 Changes doc update.
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:13:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211181337.GD2612@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021211180719.GB10008@suse.de>

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:07:19PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>  > I think the coolest things (to me) of the new build system need to be
>  > noted too,
>  > 
>  > - "make" is now the preferred target; it does <arch-zimage> and modules.
>  > - "make -jN" is now the preferred parallel-make execution.  Do not
>  >   bother to provide "MAKE=xxx".
> 
> Yup. Added. Thanks.
> Something else that I've noticed (but not found documented) is that
> make dep seems to be automagickly done somewhen. An explicit make dep
> takes about a second, and doesn't seem to do much at all.

I would check with Kai on that... IIRC there _is_ a purpose to "make
dep", creating some file that's needed before the build process begins.
Maybe that's fixed now...


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-11 17:25 2.5 Changes doc update Dave Jones
2002-12-11 17:54 ` Roger Luethi
2002-12-11 18:07   ` Dave Jones
2002-12-11 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-11 18:07   ` Dave Jones
2002-12-11 18:13     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-11 20:28       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-12-11 18:18 ` Anders Gustafsson
2002-12-11 19:42 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 19:46 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 21:38 ` Mark Fasheh
2002-12-12  1:09 ` Ian Wienand
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-11 17:38 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-12-11 19:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 17:57 Margit Schubert-While
2002-12-11 18:30 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-12  3:43 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-12-13  4:33 SL Baur

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