std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (12/12/85)
From: topaz!packard!mtung!jhc (Jonathan Clark) Date: 11 Dec 85 14:03:32 EST (Wed) While building fairly large pieces of software like an entire UNIX system, kernel, commands, libraries, and everything, from source, we found that a good way of speeding everything up was to set up a minimum size environment (about 5 variables), then use 'ksh' as the shell that 'make' used all the time. This produced about a 1/4 faster build (knocked about 90 mins off a six-hour build time). Of course, most of what 'make' does is 'exec' a shell... -- Jonathan Clark [NAC]!mtung!jhc My walk has become rather more silly lately. Volume-Number: Volume 4, Number 10