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 04:26 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> 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.)
I was thinking about using build-stamps and inter-directory dependencies without 
implementing a full non-recursive make system, but I have to investigate the 
current situation to be sure.

In the meantime maybe we could simply speed up the asn2wrs script, but I haven't 
done any profiling on it yet.

Right now I'm getting errors even with -j1. :-(

Cheers,
Balint