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@@ -28,16 +28,25 @@ set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with - $ make profile-all - # make prefix=... install + $ make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD all + # make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD install This will run the complete test suite as training workload and then rebuild git with the generated profile feedback. This results in a git which is a few percent faster on CPU intensive workloads. This may be a good tradeoff for distribution packagers. -Note that the profile feedback build stage currently generates -a lot of additional compiler warnings. +Or if you just want to install a profile-optimized version of git into +your home directory, you could run: + + $ make PROFILE=BUILD install + +As a caveat: a profile-optimized build takes a *lot* longer since the +git tree must be built twice, and in order for the profiling +measurements to work properly, ccache must be disabled and the test +suite has to be run using only a single CPU. In addition, the profile +feedback build stage currently generates a lot of additional compiler +warnings. Issues of note: @@ -122,6 +131,9 @@ Issues of note: use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this automatically if it can't find libintl on the system. + - Python version 2.6 or later is needed to use the git-p4 + interface to Perforce. + - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, but depending on your specific installation, you may not have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have |