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- From: faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Compiling Linux with make 3.63 (ANSWER) and faster gzip 0.8.2
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:52:23 GMT
- Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- References: <1993Jan24.223004.8078@tc.cornell.edu> <1993Jan27.202130.5896@adv.win.tue.nl>
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- Keywords: gzip 0.8.1, make 3.63
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- In article <1993Jan27.202130.5896@adv.win.tue.nl>, devet@adv.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan24.223004.8078@tc.cornell.edu> faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik
- |> Faith) writes:
- |>
- |> >ANNOUNCE: BINARIES UPLOADED!
- |>
- |> >gzip081A.Notes
- |> >gzip081A.taz
- |>
- |> There's already a newer version 0.8.2 which detects correctly that Linux is
- |> a 386 system and uses some assembly code for string matching. This gives a
- |> speed-up of 30-40%. Compiles and configures without any problem, try it!
-
- You're a few days behind. This was posted before 0.8.2 was out.
-
- The changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 were due to fast work by Stephen
- Tweedie <sct@dcs.edinburgh.ac.uk> and Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr).
-
-
- |> >mk363A.Notes
- |> >mk363A.taz
- |> >
- |> > This is GNU make 3.63, with man and info pages. WARNING: Variables are
- |> > no longer automatically exported to the environment when a sub-make is
- |> > started. This radically changes behavior of sub-makes! The Linux
- |> > kernel will no longer compile without minor changes (which will
- |> > probably be in 0.99.5)! USE WITH CAUTION! mk362A.taz does not have
- |> > this behavior, and will not be deleted for some time.
- |>
- |> The fix is very simple:
- |>
- |> Add:
- |>
- |> .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES:
- |>
- |> as first line to /usr/src/linux/Makefile.
-
- And in some cases, the builtin rules for submakes will become corrupt.
- This is evident if you compile the SCSI code, and is the fault of a *BUG*
- in make, which is due to the changes that I warn about. Patches should be
- out soon.
-
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- Rik Faith: faith@cs.unc.edu
- What I tell you three times is true. --Dodgson
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