clean/distclean speedup

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Mar 9 22:02:34 UTC 2006


On Thursday 09 March 2006 4:50 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> i know these targets aren't used _that_ often, but if we're
> allowed to use xargs, this patch makes 'make clean' and 'make
> distclean' somewhat faster.  i won't apply this myself -- i'll
> leave it to someone who feels more responsibility for the
> makefiles than i'm willing to take.  ;-)

I was actually pondering merging the various "find" instances earlier today.

I don't see a problem using xargs, it's susv3 and we supply a working version 
of it.  (I have a rule of thumb that we should work without our own stuff.)  
I'll test it on RH9 in a bit to make sure there's no brain damage there, but 
for now:

Applied.

Rob
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