Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:19:35 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL 0/9] perf/core improvements and fixes |
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* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote:
> Em Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:54:51PM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu: > > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote: > > > . Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim. > > > > These are really useful: there used to be a couple of > > seconds of wait time at the beginning of every perf build - > > these are now nicely explained with the various CHK entries. > > The optimal way, I guess, would be to have some cache file > with the results of such feature tests, that would be created > and then used till the build fails using its findings, which > would trigger a new feature check round, followed by an > automatic rebuild. > > That would be tricky because we would have to have an > automated way of discovering if the build failed due to > missing packages or if it failed due to some ordinary coding > mistake.
The feature tests aren't a big problem right now - but making it *visible* is really useful. It also tells us which feature test fails, etc.
Thanks,
Ingo
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