These patches eliminate two (albeit tiny and shortlived) processes from the cmd_and_fixdep rule, i.e. from every TU being compiled. Whether the diffstat below is worth it I'll leave to Kbuild maintainers to decide.
Rasmus Villemoes (3): Kbuild: refactor fixdep to use getopt() Kbuild: teach fixdep to optionally remove the depfile Kbuild: let fixdep do the renaming to .cmd scripts/Kbuild.include | 11 ++++------ scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.16.4
