patches/binutils/2.17.50.0.14/300-001_ld_makefile_patch.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Sun May 20 13:48:26 2007 +0000 (2007-05-20)
changeset 112 ea15433daba0
permissions -rw-r--r--
Ah! I finally have a progress bar that doesn't stall the build!
- pipe size in Linux is only 8*512=4096 bytes
- pipe size is not setable
- when the feeding process spits out data faster than the eating
process can read it, then the feeding process stalls after 4KiB
of data sent to the pipe
- for us, the progress bar would spawn a sub-shell every line,
and the sub-shell would in turn spawn a 'date' command.
Which was sloooww as hell, and would cause some kind of a
starvation: the pipe was full most of the time, and the
feeding process was stalled all this time.

Now, we use internal variables and a little hack based onan offset
to determine the elapsed time. Much faster this way, but still
CPU-intensive.
     1 diff -dur binutils-2.17.50.0.14.orig/ld/Makefile.am binutils-2.17.50.0.14/ld/Makefile.am
     2 --- binutils-2.17.50.0.14.orig/ld/Makefile.am	2007-03-16 16:48:30.000000000 +0100
     3 +++ binutils-2.17.50.0.14/ld/Makefile.am	2007-04-10 17:40:16.000000000 +0200
     4 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     5  # We put the scripts in the directory $(scriptdir)/ldscripts.
     6  # We can't put the scripts in $(datadir) because the SEARCH_DIR
     7  # directives need to be different for native and cross linkers.
     8 -scriptdir = $(tooldir)/lib
     9 +scriptdir = $(libdir)
    10  
    11  EMUL = @EMUL@
    12  EMULATION_OFILES = @EMULATION_OFILES@
    13 diff -dur binutils-2.17.50.0.14.orig/ld/Makefile.in binutils-2.17.50.0.14/ld/Makefile.in
    14 --- binutils-2.17.50.0.14.orig/ld/Makefile.in	2007-03-16 16:48:30.000000000 +0100
    15 +++ binutils-2.17.50.0.14/ld/Makefile.in	2007-04-10 17:40:16.000000000 +0200
    16 @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
    17  # We put the scripts in the directory $(scriptdir)/ldscripts.
    18  # We can't put the scripts in $(datadir) because the SEARCH_DIR
    19  # directives need to be different for native and cross linkers.
    20 -scriptdir = $(tooldir)/lib
    21 +scriptdir = $(libdir)
    22  BASEDIR = $(srcdir)/..
    23  BFDDIR = $(BASEDIR)/bfd
    24  INCDIR = $(BASEDIR)/include