[Libreoffice] [PATCH] EasyHacks: Accelerate Perl Installer

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Jordan Ayers <jordan.ayers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I was looking at the perl installer, and attached are patches to
> change most of the chmod system calls into calls to the built-in
> command.  This change alone doesn't seem to make a big difference (it
> cut about 5 seconds off of a 4 1/2 minute run of ooinstall for me).

5 seconds saved is 5 seconds earned :-)
If you can shave 2% per patch... we will soon get somewhere :-)

>    The second patch includes the replacement of a couple of two-step
> chmod calls with a single built-in call; the original code indicated
> that it was a work-around for removing the sticky bit on Macs.  I
> don't have a Mac to test that the new call handles sticky bits in the
> same way, but expect that it will from checking the current perlport
> doc.
>

I built it on MacOS: no apparent breakages.

Pushed.

Thanks,

Norbert

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>
> Jordan Ayers
>
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