At 2018-08-04T21:05:54+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > to avoid gratuitous variation in builds, to reduce noise in build > logs, and to reduce groff -U usage in builds, i propose to delete > the date and time macros from contrib/hdtbl/examples. They are not > useful in the first place as far as i can see.
I think they might have been back when a 466 MHz Celeron CPU and almost half a gig of RAM was considered a high-specification system. I suspect the timing info was reported to reassure squeamish users that their build hadn't simply gone into a busy-wait loop. Nowadays we have beefier machines and I would expect users complaining about a slow or "stuck" build to do a bit more homework before jumping to conclusions. Bertrand is doing his best to evangelize "make -j" for the groff build, which surely will help. > Bertrand Garrigues encouraged me to propose this for commit, and > i'm posting here to make sure it doesn't cause problems for somebody. > > Any concerns, or any OKs to commit? I say go for it! I considered making basically the same change myself months ago, but decided to fry other fish. Now that I'm back from DebConf I need to push my further rewrite of groff_man(7). Let's see how long it takes to write my commit message. :P -- Regards, Branden
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