[DOC] Re: java OutOfMemory building documentation

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Where did this go?  I thought I saw a patch, but it's not pushed, and  
now I can't find it.  libX11 takes 2h20m to build/install on my G5  
when there are no changes:

http://tinderbox.x.org/builds/2010-10-07-0019/logs/libX11/

On Oct 3, 2010, at 09:38, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>>> .pre:
>>>>    @dir=`echo $@ | sed 's,\(.*\)/.*,\1,'`; $(MKDIR_P) $$dir
>>> Shouldn't this be able to be simplified to just:
>>>       @$(MKDIR_P) $(@D)
>>>
>>> I thought we previously determined that was portable to all the  
>>> versions
>>> of make people used.
>>
>> I thought that was a GNU make thing, but if not it's definitely the
>> way to go. I don't actually have any other make's to look at.
>
> I know Solaris make supports it, and the D & F suffix are included  
> in the
> POSIX/UNIX standards for the 5 "internal macros" ($@, $%, $?, $M, $>):
>   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/make.html
>
> I seem to remember BSD developers confirming it worked with their  
> make as
> well a few months ago when I proposed a patch using it, but can't  
> find the
> message off hand for reference.
>
> -- 
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
> 	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>
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