Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:01:01 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speedup idea for 'make world' Message-ID: <199604100901.LAA00504@grumble.grondar.za>
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> I'm sitting watching a make world crawling along on a remote machine at the
> moment, and had an idea..
>
> When it's bootstrapping everything by building the initial tools and
> libraries, and installing them so it can delete and rebuild everything, it's
> wasting an awful lot of time building and installing man pages on the first
> pass.
>
> Perhaps all the:
> cd ${foo}/where/ever && ${MAKE} depend all install ${whatever}
>
> should be:
> cd ${foo}/where/ever && ${MAKE} -DNOMAN=foo depend all install ${whatever}
> ?
John Hay proposed this one a couple of months back. Its a great way of
speeding up "make release" as well.
M
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