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

William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-17T21:44:22Z

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