From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lx5wL-0002dR-TF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lx5wH-0002ck-1E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46858 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lx5wG-0002ch-Q4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:32 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:39212) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lx5wG-0006ro-CE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [7234] Use a more natural order Message-ID: <20090423205431.GO3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20090423185308.GH3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090423191040.GI3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <5d6222a80904231215p62c6594asc50230b252e892aa@mail.gmail.com> <49F0C826.4060503@codemonkey.ws> <20090423195902.GN3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <49F0C9AA.1070703@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49F0C9AA.1070703@codemonkey.ws> From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Blue Swirl , Glauber Costa , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:03:54PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I was obviously referring to posting to the mailing list. I have a set > of compilation and unit tests that get run before every commit. > > There are a lot of possible configuration options for QEMU. Sometimes > the build breaks for some combination of configuration options and this > is a difficult thing to address in a robust way. With a patch series, > my scripts run through what I consider the most common set of > configurations for each patch. Right now, it usually takes a good 30 > minutes to go through a large series just to compile test with my > default configurations. Isn't there a configure option for building for all available targets? It might take 30 minutes, but it saves large amounts of time for everyone else later. Also I would hope make is smart enough to only recompile the bits that changed, so that shouldn't take as long. -- Len Sorensen