Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> 
> David Holland pointed out that Make has a lot of implicit suffix rules
> built in and you can disable them by setting ".SUFFIXES:".  As an
> example, checking the debugging information shows we no longer try to
> compile anything from a '.f' suffix.  This turns out to be good for a 15%
> speedup on a build with nothing to do; down from 29.1 seconds to 24.7
> seconds on my K6.

Enabling the following in the Makefile should have the same effect:

# For maximum performance (+ possibly random breakage, uncomment
# the following)

#MAKEFLAGS += -rR

bye, Roman
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