From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 114058 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2016 16:35:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 114044 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2016 16:35:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=our X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:34:54 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c73Ag-0000db-0F for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:34:53 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53974) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c73Af-0000dW-T9; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:34:49 -0500 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4314 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c73Af-0004NX-7E; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:34:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:35:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83lgwjfknq.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Simon Marchi CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20161116160808.12830-4-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> (message from Simon Marchi on Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:08:07 -0500) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Makefile: Replace old suffix rules with pattern rules Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20161116160808.12830-1-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <20161116160808.12830-4-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00425.txt.bz2 > From: Simon Marchi > CC: Simon Marchi > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:08:07 -0500 > > AFAIK, .SUFFIXES targets are only used for those rules, and can be > removed as well. AFAIK, .SUFFIXES affects built-in rules, and so having there only suffixes relevant to our build will make the build faster, sometimes much faster, because Make doesn't need to consider irrelevant built-in rules. When in doubt, we can ask the GNU Make maintainer to help us.