how to reduce X building time?

[Peter Hutterer]

On 8/03/13 23:33 , wolfking wrote:
> Hi peter,
>    After reading your reply, I also googled about the "autoresume". It 
> seems that it works like this:
> In the 1st time, I entered "./util/modular/build.sh --autoresum a.txt 
> /usr", after it failed building,
> I did some modification, then reenter the "./util/modular/build.sh 
> --autoresum a.txt /usr" , it should
> resume from the previously failed component. I hope my understanding is 
> right.

That's correct. --autoresume writes the list of modules into the file
provided (a.txt in your case) and will pick up from there again

Cheers,
   Peter


> 
>  > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:41:22 +1000
>  > From: peter.hutterer at who-t.net
>  > To: wolfking2000 at msn.com
>  > CC: xorg-devel at lists.x.org
>  > Subject: Re: how to reduce X building time?
>  >
>  > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 06:32:23AM +0000, wolfking wrote:
>  > >
>  > > hi, all: I'm building the X on my PowerPC platform and have a 
> problem: Everytime when I use the build.sh scricpt to build the X, the 
> build.sh restart from thebeginning to compile, it wastes a lot of time 
> to rebuild the components that it builtin the previous building process. 
> I remember in the previous version of build.sh, I canuse the -r option 
> to specify the component from where to begin building. But in current 
> version of build.sh, this option is ignored, instead it provides -o 
> option, and it onlycompiles the specified component, and ignores the 
> followed components. Can someone tell mehow to reduce the building time?
>  >
>  > use --autoresume instead of -r
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Peter
>  >
>  >