forcemerge 10697 8031 close 8031 thanks On 02/13/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > This is a copy of > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-02/msg00017.html > It's not really a bug, but rather a feature request. > > Ralf > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: slow "make clean" > Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:46:55 +0100 > From: Ralf Hemmecke <hemme...@gmail.com> > To: autom...@gnu.org > > I've a project that must use subdir-objects, because of filename clashes in > subdirectories (non-recursive build). > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign subdir-objects]) > > I just have > > lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la > check_PROGRAMS = ${TESTSUITE_TESTS} ${TESTSUITE_XFAIL_TESTS} > > but quite a lot of files. > > The generated Makefile contains a target "mostlyclean-compile" which has > about 1500 lines that look like > > -rm -f src/foo/foo.$(OBJEXT) > -rm -f src/foo/foo.lo > ... > > Of course it takes ages to say "make clean". About 10 sec. > > Wouldn't it be faster if there were just one call to rm or at least > block the number of arguments to rm so that the maximal argument lenght > is not exceeded? > > Any idea how I can speed that up? > > Ralf > This issue has been solved addressing this later bug report: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10697>
I'm thus merging the present bug#8031 with that, and closing it. Regards, Stefano
