Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38304: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/:

[Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/07/2011 04:07 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Gerald Combs wrote:
> > On 10/4/11 1:11 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > > Balint Reczey wrote:
> > > > Let's make Python a requirement now.
> > > > I fully support the idea of not keeping generated files in SVN and in
> > > > the release tarball.
> > > I know it's been a while, but...  Any other thoughts/votes on this topic?
> >
> > It's fine with me.
>
> One downside with this is that it takes (at least on my not-that-old
> home PC) about 3.5 minutes to build all the ASN.1 dissectors ("time make
> -C asn1").  Since the ASN.1 dissectors are all in subdirectories (and
> each subdir has only one target) the build does not parallelize ("make
> -j X") well.
>
> It probably could be made more parallel through some ugliness (making
> what is currently a recursive build non-recursive).
>
> Thoughts?
We can make it parallel without converting them non-recursive.
I'm in for improving the parallelism.

Cheers,
Balint