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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:01:01 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: speedup idea for 'make world' 
Message-ID:  <199604100901.LAA00504@grumble.grondar.za>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> I'm sitting watching a make world crawling along on a remote machine at the
> moment, and had an idea..
> 
> When it's bootstrapping everything by building the initial tools and
> libraries, and installing them so it can delete and rebuild everything, it's
> wasting an awful lot of time building and installing man pages on the first
> pass.
> 
> Perhaps all the:
>   cd ${foo}/where/ever && ${MAKE} depend all install ${whatever}
> 
> should be:
>   cd ${foo}/where/ever && ${MAKE} -DNOMAN=foo depend all install ${whatever}
> ?

John Hay proposed this one a couple of months back. Its a great way of
speeding up "make release" as well.

M
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