Re: Undesirable overhead in GNU Make 4.2.1.

2018-02-07 Thread Reinier Post
On Tue Feb 6 15:12:45 2018, hans.ottevan...@gmail.com (Hans Ottevanger) wrote: > Hi, > > We are attempting to use GNU Make 4.2.1 to build a large software tree > (~29 targets). > > The build hosts we are testing on are (virtualized) quad core X86-64 > machines running RHEL 6. Our code tree

Re: Undesirable overhead in GNU Make 4.2.1.

2018-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 15:12 +0100, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > It appears that this behavior is caused by the need to maintain the > variable MAKEFILE_LIST. The names of all included makefiles are > appended one by one to the ever growing string representing this > variable.This also explains why memc

Undesirable overhead in GNU Make 4.2.1.

2018-02-06 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Hi, We are attempting to use GNU Make 4.2.1 to build a large software tree (~29 targets). The build hosts we are testing on are (virtualized) quad core X86-64 machines running RHEL 6. Our code tree is currently on "locally perceived" storage. We compiled GNU Make 4.2.1 from sources. Our mai