Re: [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building themin parallel

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:34:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Checking why that strlcpy failed...
> > 
> > I don't think glibc does strlcpy. It's not a standard C function, and
> 
> My concern was more about the thinking: ``Is this red "OFF" thing a 
> problem?  I feel so much more confortable when all entries have nice 
> green "on" lights...''

Yeah, so I think we should add our internal implementation of strlcpy() as 
a __weak function instead - if the libc does not provide then we provide a 
fallback.

That should get rid of another ~50 msecs of build overhead, as failed 
feature tests are the most expensive ones.

Agreed?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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