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, 5 Apr 2002 07:01:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:01:39 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:30482 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:01:28 -0500 To: Keith Owens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 2.0 is available In-Reply-To: <7022.1018005968@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 05 Apr 2002 14:01:13 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens writes: > > More accurate kernel build, easier to write and understand Makefiles, > 30% faster than kbuild 2.4. Now the nay-sayers will have to find > something else to complain about! I assume with kbuild 2.4 you mean the current makefiles. How does it compare at a single threaded build without -j ? You seem to have written an awful lot of code just to build something. Perhaps it would have been easier to just replace make completely with a custom builder @) -Andi