Re: [Libreoffice] patch for make to help in gbuild debugging

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 15:44 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> > I submitted the patch to the bug-make mailing list
>
> Note that, even if the patch is accepted by upstream, based on their
> recent 'schedule', It won't probably be available in a 'realeased'
> version until 2014 or something... so don't hold your breath.

        You know; the temptation to check-in and build our own gnumake is
growing on me ;-) you know you want to (TM) ... IMHO there are a few
nonsensical things that are done of utter pointlessness in there.

        It takes me only ~10 seconds to compile (and the same to configure
(urk)) gnumake.

        My current incremental, no-op tail_build takes:

real    0m18.519s
user    0m17.679s
sys     0m0.769s

        Which seems too slow (and it's set to get worse) - 500ms or more of
that seems to be in verify_file_database() eg. which just wanders around
banging on the L2 cache checking strings are still strings to no useful
purpose ;-) but no doubt there is a lot more that we can do to get this
improved.

        ATB,

                Michael.

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