[CMake] Obtaining improved GNU make performance on Makefiles generated by cmake

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-03-18 10:06-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> I played around with make -d and -p and found that the .SUFFIXES rule 
>> that was supposed to be removing the implicit rules for gmake was not 
>> working for everything.   SCCS and RCS were being checked for a bunch 
>> of stuff.   Anyway, try this and see if it improves the issue you were 
>> seeing:
>>
>>
>> $ cvs commit -m "ENH: try to improve make speed by getting rid of some 
>> implicit rules that were still around." cmLocalUnixMakefileGenerator3.cxx
>> /cvsroot/CMake/CMake/Source/cmLocalUnixMakefileGenerator3.cxx,v  <-- 
>> cmLocalUnixMakefileGenerator3.cxx
>> new revision: 1.241; previous revision: 1.240
> 
> Hi Bill:
> 
> It's going to take a while because I am running into problems configuring
> and building PLplot with the cvs version of CMake.  Some if not all of this
> is our fault.  For example, the cvs version of CMake has warned about
> non-unique target names which is an issue I definitely want to address.
> Also, the PLplot build fails, but I want to get rid of the cmake warnings
> before investigating that build issue any further.
> 
Before you fix PLplot, I would be interested in knowing why it does not 
build with CVS CMake warnings and all.   What OS/compiler are you having 
trouble with?  Where/how can I download PLplot and try it myself.

Thanks.

-Bill