Subject: Re: Huh?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/1999 20:59:03
> This doesn't seem to do anything, but I sure get a lot of them.

Build & install a new version of make.

The new :O variable modifier sorts the words within a variable;
reordering the jobs run by make this way results in a noticeable
speedup for things like library builds since the .o, .so, and .po
files are built at about the same time, reducing the amount of disk
i/o needed...

					- Bill