Re: 2.5 Changes doc update.

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:07:19 +0000


On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I think the coolest things (to me) of the new build system need to be
> noted too,
>
> - "make" is now the preferred target; it does <arch-zimage> and modules.
> - "make -jN" is now the preferred parallel-make execution. Do not
> bother to provide "MAKE=xxx".

Yup. Added. Thanks.
Something else that I've noticed (but not found documented) is that
make dep seems to be automagickly done somewhen. An explicit make dep
takes about a second, and doesn't seem to do much at all.

Dave

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