On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 02:16:58PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > >I also came across posts recording a massive improvement in link > >times for webkit. One of those posts said that the gtk buildbots > >for webkit were forcing gold by putting /usr/lib/gold-ld/ at the > >front of the PATH - but on a stock install binutils does not create > >that. Probably, the same can be achieved (for testing) by creating > >/usr/bin/gold/ld as a symlink and then altering $PATH for the test > >runs (those of us with a lot of scripts probably don't want to hack > >the correct CC= into each script). > > Interesting info. > > For your scripts, may I suggest having a 'global' file for common things. > For instance I have in all my scripts: > > source /usr/src/stats > > but that file has more than just things relating to statistics. For > example, I use $SUDO when I wan to do privileged things, so I have: > > if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then SUDO='sudo -E'; fi > > Occasionally I want to override this for a DESTDIR install, so I just use > > SUDO= > > after the source statement. > > -- Bruse >
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm thinking about various other changes to how I run my builds, I'll consider that. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
