Re: Build translated manuals: Don't rebuild everything each timeunless necessary. (issue 5494069)

[Julien Rioux]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Please review. I tested make, make check, make doc, and do not get any
>> problem. However, with the previous versions I also did not get any
>> problem, yet I broke staging. I would be grateful if someone with a fast
>> machine could test a parallel make doc. I would not be comfortable
>> pushing to staging without this test.
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>> Regards,
>> Julien
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> On my fast system, make doc takes 12min 30 approx and currently produces a
> 6.5 meg logfile.  I've run a system patched with this, and it ran for over
> 20 minutes, with no apparent updates to the output, which was "only" about 1
> meg.  Only one CPU was being used (of 8) and this was 100% processing make.
> make output is available if you want to see what I have.
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> Phil Holmes
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Thanks for testing. Did make doc ever finish? Maybe it decided that
things need to be done in series, which could take up to 1h40m based
on your fast parallel build on 8 CPUs. You can send the output
privately.

Thanks,
Regards,
Julien