Wolfgang Denk cca4e4aec1 Reduce build times ... U-Boot Makefiles contain a number of tests for compiler features etc. which so far are executed again and again. On some architectures (especially ARM) this results in a large number of calls to gcc. This patch makes sure to run such tests only once, thus largely reducing the number of "execve" system calls. Example: number of "execve" system calls for building the "P2020DS" (Power Architecture) and "qong" (ARM) boards, measured as: -> strace -f -e trace=execve -o /tmp/foo ./MAKEALL <board> -> grep execve /tmp/foo | wc -l Before: After: Reduction: ================================== P2020DS 20555 15205 -26% qong 31692 14490 -54% As a result, built times are significantly reduced, typically by 30...50%. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@gmail.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud@free.fr> cc: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com> cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Tested-by: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com> Tested-by: Matthias Weisser <weisserm@arcor.de> Tested-by: Sanjeev Premi <premi@ti.com> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>		2011-11-03 20:44:58 +01:00
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api	examples: api: allow build with private libgcc	2011-10-22 00:40:06 +02:00
standalone	Reduce build times	2011-11-03 20:44:58 +01:00