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

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Balint Reczey wrote:
> 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.

How?  (At the moment I'm looking only at automake, but I suppose 
eventually Windows and CMake must be considered.)