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Subject: Re: how to avoid a "make install" on simdisk after each change

Re: how to avoid a "make install" on simdisk after each change

From: Nils Wallménius <nils.wallmenius_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:48:50 +0100

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Nils Wallménius
<nils.wallmenius_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Mike Giacomelli <giac2000_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> unfortunately I am not fit enough with the Makefiles to do this for
>>> myself, so I hope somebody can do this for me.
>>
>>
>> Good news!
>> All of that happens in a perl script outside of the main makefile (see make_install in tools/buildzip.pl), so feel free to take a stab at it.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, make install creates a zip similar to a regular build and then
> unzips it into simdisk, so making that a regular file copy instead
> would probably make the make install pretty much instant on operating
> systems/filesystems with lazy file copying.
>
> Nils
>

Saratoga pointed out that this is not correct, it does not actually
make a zip file.
Sorry for any confusion.

Nils
Received on 2010-12-03

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