On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 05:12:56PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 19:08 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote: > > Don't see why we shouldn't maintain our own patched copy of gmake the > > same way we maintain patched copies of other components. > > There was a long discussion about this at the ESC :-) and I disagree > with the decision, am still suffering slower builds from it on all my > machines, but don't much feel like re-opening it personally. > > We currently have an improved / patched version of gnumake here: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/dev-tools/ > > Which has the speedup patch, and Norbert's nice debugging code etc. > unfortunately it is extremely non-trivial to get that to automatically > work as part of the build. > > Personally, I'd be thrilled to have a '--with-internal-gmake' configure > option that would download, build, locally install and setup the paths > to use an internal, faster gnumake - so I could just add it to my > autogen.lastrun's -and- IIRC that'd be ok by what we decided last on the > topic too.
Or you can build it once and put it into your ~/bin ;-) That is exactly what I do (because of the additional debugging abilities, which is someting I use _a lot_). D. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
