Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:13:37 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 Changes doc update. |
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:07:19PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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". > > Yup. Added. Thanks. > Something else that I've noticed (but not found documented) is that > make dep seems to be automagickly done somewhen. An explicit make dep > takes about a second, and doesn't seem to do much at all.
I would check with Kai on that... IIRC there _is_ a purpose to "make dep", creating some file that's needed before the build process begins. Maybe that's fixed now...
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