Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:29:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Langer <langer@gmx.net> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003041124220.40623-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20000304163702.A1225@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green@freebsd.org): > > > > Thanks!! Thousands of computers will thank you for saving their time! :-P > > For an even faster speedup, you can use pdksh with make(1). I have > > patches available upon request :) > > What does it do? > Use the smaller pdksh as sh? Or any /bin/ksh. It can be taught to use csh, too, now, through the simple make switch. However, I'd not try it ;) The idea is you can set this in /etc/make.conf: MAKE_SHELL=ksh When make(1) got built, it would have the Korn shell as its shell. > How big are the speed improvements? I've clocked it to be at times 7 times as fast. Last time I checked, it can cut 10% of the time from a make world. The pretty small diffs can be found at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~green/make.ksh.patch > Alex Anxiously awaiting the AT&T KSH unencumbered source release, -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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