RE: fast make install

[Duft Markus]

Hi!

Wow. I have a work package pending which should make our build tool on
top of autotools make "bulk-install", which is exactly the thing you
just committed :) will this make it into the next release for all file
types? Or can i get this whole thing as a patch for the version of
automake we currently use (1.9.6)?

Cheers, Markus

Ralf Wildenhues <> wrote:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:13:13AM CET:
>> Here's the proposed patch (generated files not shown), still missing
>> Autoconf version requirement.  It does the fast install for HEADERS,
>> DATA, PYTHON, LIBRARIES, and TEXINFOS outputs.
>> 
>> Comments, reviews, etc., greatly appreciated.
> 
> The Autoconf version requirement has just been committed.  I have not
> yet added fast install for any other file types; notrans_*MANS will be
> simple once Peter's changes are in, but for all the rewriting types I
> haven't yet found a way to do it that isn't very ugly and quite
> involved.
> 
> Applied as shown in
>
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2945/focus
=3088>,
> except that I edited the ChangeLog message a bit as below.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> 2008-03-08  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
> 
>       Use `install' with multiple files at once for some primaries.
>       With nobase targets, at most 50 files are installed at once,
>       to avoid quadratic string concatenation and line length limits.
>       This isn't yet done with base targets.  One hope is that there,
>       the typical file name length is lower.  If this turns out to be
>       a problem, it should be revisited.
> 
>       * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__nobase_list): New helper macro for
>       installation of multiple nobase files at once: sorts and lists
>       files keyed by their target directory.
>       * lib/am/data.am (%DIR%%PRIMARY%_INSTALL): No need to set it to
>       $(install_sh_DATA) any more, not even for nobase targets.
>       (install-%DIR%%PRIMARY%): Split base and nobase cases.
>       Rewrite to pass lists of files which all go in the same
>       directory to `install'.  In the nobase case, make use of
>       $(am__nobase_list) and $(MKDIR_P) each directory before
>       populating it.  Take care of files in source and build trees,
>       and avoid creating directories where no files are to be
>       installed.
>       * lib/am/libs.am (%DIR%LIBRARIES_INSTALL): Likewise.
>       (install-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
>       * lib/am/python.am (%DIR%PYTHON_INSTALL): Likewise.
>       (install-%DIR%PYTHON): Likewise.  Also take care to keep note of
>       a list for byte compilation after installation.
>       * lib/am/texinfos.am (install-dvi-am, install-html-am)
>       (install-info-am, install-pdf-am, install-ps-am): Use file lists
>       to install multiple files at once.
>       * NEWS: Update.
>       Suggested by Akim Demaille.