Eric Sproul wrote:
> On 02/ 4/10 02:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> If your software is so small and simple that you only compile a single
>> file, who cares?
>
> I should have been clearer-- I'm talking about building open source software,
> like Apache and PHP. We build both 32- and 64-bit versions, and in the case
> of
> PHP, we end up building *4* times (32/64-bit for Apache 1.3, 32/64-bit for
> Apache 2.2). It gets tedious when building on a V210 with 1.0GHz US-IIIi. :)
Even if you can't use gmake/dmake to get parallelism in individual builds,
part of our speedup was building 32-bit & 64-bit in parallel, since we use
makefiles to control the overall build process. (In my particular case,
the software was open source as well - the X Window System from X.Org.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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