[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Speedup make removing implicit rules for makefiles and dependencies (cure for slow "make" in MSYS+MinGW)

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Wed Oct 28 12:39:57 CET 2009


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:36:27AM +0100, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
> > make -d spews out lots of junk.  That's not news.
> 
> I wouldn't call that junk. This stuff is actually done by make  
> (including file existence checks) and consumes some time. This may be  
> neglected on UNIX coz the difference as Ramiro said is not so  
> significant (well, invisible on UNIX).

I assume Ramiro tested with MinGW and his numbers seem to contradict
your conclusions.
Are you sure you don't just have a broken make version?



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