[PATCH v2 3/3] xfree86: Remove libxorg convenience library to speed up build

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Jun 17 12:21:55 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:31:45AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> So, it saves a few seconds for me. However, the case that Daniel has
> to cope with is the "dirtying" case where you're just making a couple
> changes but have to wait for libxorg to get rebuilt. For me, the time
> is almost cut in half.

Yep, and it's even worse for me on a relatively underpowered laptop.  My
pain point is doing git rebase -i over a relatively large tree (say
smooth-scrolling) with make check after every commit.

Cheers,
Daniel


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