RE: make 3.82 performing more stat() calls than 3.81

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 19:18 +0000, Troy Runkel wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> I believe I've located the fix in the GNU make CVS repository that
> resolves the excessive stat() call problem.  I've back-ported the fix
> into 3.82 and it appears to be working in our build system.  The patch
> for 'read.c' is attached if anybody is interested.  Thanks.

You  might consider going to the Debian packages site and downloading
the source package for the Debian version of GNU make.  They are pretty
good about backporting fixes and I know for a fact that this fix, for
example, is included in the Debian version.

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