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 -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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