Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:58:10 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 Changes doc update. |
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:25:59PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote: > Kernel build system. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - Versus 2.4, the build system has been much improved. > You should notice quicker builds, and less spontaneous rebuilds > of files on subsequent builds from already built trees. > - make xconfig now requires the qt libraries. > - Make menuconfig/oldconfig has no user-visible changes other than speed, > whilst numerous improvements have been made. > - Several new debug targets exist: 'allyesconfig' 'allnoconfig' 'allmodconfig'. > - For infomation: The above improvements are not CML2 / kbuild-2.5 related.
I think the coolest things (to me) of the new build system need to be noted too,
- "make" is now the preferred target; it does <arch-zimage> and modules. - "make -jN" is now the preferred parallel-make execution. Do not bother to provide "MAKE=xxx".
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