From c9404c6650d8f58ce8cf98d4c5581fc5c9e37faf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 17:17:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tools/perf/build: Speed up the final link libtraceevent.a and liblk.a rules have always-missed dependencies, which causes python.so to be relinked at every build attempt - even if none of the affected code changes. This slows down re-builds unnecessarily, by adding more than a second to the build time: comet:~/tip/tools/perf> time make ... SUBDIR /fast/mingo/tip/tools/lib/lk/ make[1]: `liblk.a' is up to date. SUBDIR /fast/mingo/tip/tools/lib/traceevent/ LINK perf GEN python/perf.so real 0m1.701s user 0m1.338s sys 0m0.301s Add the (trivial) dependencies to not force a re-link. This speeds up an empty re-build enormously: comet:~/tip/tools/perf> time make ... real 0m0.207s user 0m0.134s sys 0m0.028s [ This adds some coupling between the build dependencies of libtraceevent and liblk - but until those stay relatively simple this should not be an issue. ] Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wvmlrurufuk6mo1ovtNigguT@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed