* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@infradead.org> wrote:
> Em Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:54:51PM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > . Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim.
> >
> > These are really useful: there used to be a couple of
> > seconds of wait time at the beginning of every perf build -
> > these are now nicely explained with the various CHK entries.
>
> The optimal way, I guess, would be to have some cache file
> with the results of such feature tests, that would be created
> and then used till the build fails using its findings, which
> would trigger a new feature check round, followed by an
> automatic rebuild.
>
> That would be tricky because we would have to have an
> automated way of discovering if the build failed due to
> missing packages or if it failed due to some ordinary coding
> mistake.
The feature tests aren't a big problem right now - but making it
*visible* is really useful. It also tells us which feature test
fails, etc.
Thanks,
Ingo
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