Re: Unification of Makefiles for kernel build?
Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Fri, 01 Jan 1999 17:10:28 -0400
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> said:
> alan@packetengines.com (Alan Mimms) writes:
> > I have just completed some rather intense GNU Make Makefile wrangling
> > and I'm feeling cocky. I believe there is much to be gained and little
> > to be lost from transforming the kernel Make infrastructure so that a
> > SINGLE invocation of make is done for the entire build instead of
> > invoking make for each subdirectory.
>
> This would be great. I always hated the recursive make loop, which forced
> me to use -j4 simply to get make do its job faster although there are
> often only a few files to be recompiled. If Make had complete information
> about all files that would work much faster.
Don't forget about Michael Elizabeth Chastain's <mec@shout.net "Dancing
Makefiles", AFAIU he is working on something quite similar.
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