CVS update: samba/source

[Andrew Bartlett]

Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:50:10AM -0800, abartlet at samba.org wrote:
> 
> > Modified Files:
> >       Makefile.in
> > Log Message:
> > An attempt at producing the correct Makefile magic for wrepld_proto.h to be
> > automatically generated on first 'make'.  This wasn't being picked up by the
> > build farm becouse of the explicit 'make proto'.
> >
> > The 'make proto' bit isn't somthing our alpha testers know about (its certainly
> > not clearly documented) and its meant to be automatic.
> 
> I think we should revisit our assumptions about why we don't do this
> automatically.  Was the only reason why make proto wasn't done all the
> time for speed reasons?  Does anyone still do Samba development (compiling
> it once doesn't count) on a 486 or a P90 these days?

I've occasionally brought my p200 class machines out of retirement for
Samba development (because I didn't have the right distro on my
desktop), but I don't oppose this.

If the time it takes is a problem, take a look at the 'optimization run
amuck' that Samba-TNG uses.  (make proto written in C).

Andrew Bartlett

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