On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 12:03 +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > The original version was implemented by Diego Elio 'Flameeyes' Pettenò > two years ago: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/3297 > > See also: > http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/automake/nonrecursive.html > > My current version is available at github, 'non-recursive' branch: > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commits/non-recursive > > > Notes: > > * generate one Makefile for whole package > > * make(1) has all information to run tasks in parallel > > * numbers (make -j) > > recursive | non-recursive > ----------+-------------- > 2 cores: 14.5 sec | 13.2 sec > 16 cores: 9.5 sec | 4.3 sec > > (... more CPU cores means more fun;-) Nice, are these real cores or HT? > > * automake variables and rules are defined in subdir/Makemodule.am files > (create one huge Makefile.am is too crazy idea) > > * top-level Makefile.am includes all Makemodule.am files > > * $(top_srcdir) prefix for lib/ and include/ is unnecessary, just use > lib/bar.c and include/bar.h in makefiles > > * lib/ has been converted to libcommon.la, it means that > foo_LDADD = libcommon.la > is enough to use arbitrary stuff from lib/. > > * all rules are interpreted from top-level directory, it means that > cd subdir; make > or > make -C subdir > does not work. > > * binaries are stored in top-level (build) directory, you don't > have to care about directories, just type: > > $ make mount > $ ./mount --help > > * all build targets (including test binaries) are visible for bash completion > scripts (e.g. /etc/bash_completion.d/make), so <tab> is your good friend > > > * disadvantages: > > - full paths in makefiles (e.g. foo_SOURCE = subdir/foo.c) > > - we can't use the same name for subdir/ and for a final binary > Necessary changes: > - remove partx/ directory, move partx.c to disk-utils/ > - remove getopt/ directory, move getopt.c to misc-utils/ > - remove hwclock/ directory, move hwclock.c to sys-utils/ > - rename fdisk/ to fdisks/ fdisk-utils? > - rename mount/ to mount-deprecated/ (we use new sys-utils/mount.c) > > Note that consolidate the code and remove some subdirs (e.g. getopt/) is > probably a good idea independently on the build-system changes. > Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
