Re: Any way to get rid of -MP parameter to gcc for dependency creation?

[Xan Lopez]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Xan Lopez <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I haven't tested it personally, but I can ask. What I know is that
>> Chromium uses gyp, which on Linux generates Makefiles, and they claim
>> their null-build time is pretty much zero (not sure on which machine,
>> though, so perhaps that's only the case for some huge iron). So it
>> would seem that whatever our problems GNU make shouldn't be one of
>> them.
>>
>> What I can tell you is that our autotools setup is known for being the
>> slowest of the lot :/ (vs Xcode, VisualStudio, CMake, Gyp, ...)
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> Do they actually do the same thing?

Yes, we all build WebKit + the some testing tools. The set of files we
build is not identical, since it changes by port, but the difference
is negligible since most of the files are platform-independent. Of
course perhaps we have written our stuff extremely poorly and they
haven't, but since I have written part of ours I'm not the best person
to comment on that (from the kind of things we need to do to improve
it it does not seem to be the case, though).

One thing more than one person has told me (and that I see everyday
developing) we are particularly slow at is the topic at hand, the
amount of time it takes for us to figure out what needs to be built,
so all the improvements that could come out of this thread are great
news.

Xan

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