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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:37:30 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <20020325153730.GP22998@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203250848.g2P8mlf77991@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200203250848.g2P8mlf77991@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:48:47AM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> sobomax     2002/03/25 00:48:47 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     Mk                   bsd.port.mk 
>   Log:
>   - Significantly reduce overhead associated with bsd.port.mk by replacing .USE
>     macro, which was invoking separate make(1) process for each of the main
>     targets, with explicit make(1) targets and specifying the dependencies on
>     those targets in normal Makefile way. This gives up to 4x speedup. For the
>     ports relying on the old functionality (i.e. each main target in a separate
>     make(1) process) provide a USE_SUBMAKE knob, which provides old behaviour;
>   
>   - speed-up dependency registration process by the factor of two, which
>     could be a great win especially for things like GNOME and KDE with very long
>     dependency chains;
>   
>   - clean-up internal structure of the file, so that it is easier to understand
>     and extend it when necessary.
>   
>   Inspired by:    NetBSD
>   Reviewed by:    freebsd-ports@
>   Tested by:      bento

Thank you, Maxim.  Very nice work.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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