Re: is it desirable to improve the build system?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 07:38:31 EST


Hi!
>
> Does the Linux-Kernel Community perceive that is the case?
>
> If so, do you think it is possible to improve?
>
> If so, would such an attempt be welcome, including and especially by, the current maintainer(s) of the build?  Of course it would have to be completely backwards-compatible, including to the text output interface and requirements for modules makefiles.
>

Yes, speeding up build would be nice. Especially nice would be
speeding up "empty" build, when only one or two files changed...

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