Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755270Ab3GKLi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:38:26 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:40804 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750904Ab3GKLiY (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:38:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:38:22 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Mark Galeck Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: is it desirable to improve the build system? Message-ID: <20130711113822.GA18579@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1372723921.53875.YahooMailNeo@web182202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1372723921.53875.YahooMailNeo@web182202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 20 Hi! > > Does the Linux-Kernel Community perceive that is the case? > > If so, do you think it is possible to improve? > > If so, would such an attempt be welcome, including and especially by, the current maintainer(s) of the build? ?Of course it would have to be completely backwards-compatible, including to the text output interface and requirements for modules makefiles. > Yes, speeding up build would be nice. Especially nice would be speeding up "empty" build, when only one or two files changed... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/