Re: ncat's "make all"

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> When building Ncat on my netbook, I noticed it takes quite a lot of
> time to compile it because every object file change not only implies
> rebuilding the file and relinking the executable, but also test
> executables. Perhaps it would be a good idea to create an optional
> target "make tests" and skip building the tests when a bare "make"
> command is called? That would speed up building, though at the cost of
> not seeing the newly introduced build errors for tests.

What's the percentage of time used to build the tests versus other
things?

Install ccache and you will be a happy man.

David Fifield
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