From b94ca2080343a0adb7e8430b48f502f2396f2b4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ramiro Polla Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:38:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that using "make -r" might be faster than plain "make" in Windows. Originally committed as revision 20418 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- doc/general.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 52be0552da..e1402f50dd 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -735,6 +735,12 @@ Notes: @itemize +@item Building natively using MSYS can be sped up by disabling implicit rules +in the Makefile by calling @code{make -r} instead of plain @code{make}. This +speed up is close to non-existent for normal one-off builds and is only +noticeable when running make for a second time (for example in +@code{make install}). + @item In order to compile FFplay, you must have the MinGW development library of SDL. Get it from @url{http://www.libsdl.org}. Edit the @file{bin/sdl-config} script so that it points to the correct prefix