Reduce build times
U-Boot Makefiles contain a number of tests for compiler features etc.
which so far are executed again and again. On some architectures
(especially ARM) this results in a large number of calls to gcc.
This patch makes sure to run such tests only once, thus largely
reducing the number of "execve" system calls.
Example: number of "execve" system calls for building the "P2020DS"
(Power Architecture) and "qong" (ARM) boards, measured as:
-> strace -f -e trace=execve -o /tmp/foo ./MAKEALL <board>
-> grep execve /tmp/foo | wc -l
Before: After: Reduction:
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P2020DS 20555 15205 -26%
qong 31692 14490 -54%
As a result, built times are significantly reduced, typically by
30...50%.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@gmail.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
cc: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Weisser <weisserm@arcor.de>
Tested-by: Sanjeev Premi <premi@ti.com>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
diff --git a/examples/standalone/Makefile b/examples/standalone/Makefile
index b1e33fb..e23865b 100644
--- a/examples/standalone/Makefile
+++ b/examples/standalone/Makefile
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@
# We don't want gcc reordering functions if possible. This ensures that an
# application's entry point will be the first function in the application's
# source file.
-CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-toplevel-reorder)
+CFLAGS_NTR := $(call cc-option,-fno-toplevel-reorder)
+CFLAGS += $(CFLAGS_NTR)
all: $(obj).depend $(OBJS) $(LIB) $(SREC) $(BIN) $(ELF)