From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 10 02:02:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA14429 for current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:02:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA14410 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00504; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:01:02 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199604100901.LAA00504@grumble.grondar.za> To: Peter Wemm cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speedup idea for 'make world' Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:01:01 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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