[illumos-Advocates] Quick question

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Thu Apr 7 09:33:07 PDT 2011


  On 04/ 7/11 07:17 AM, Albert Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Mina Yi<dearmeenuh at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Sorry for the multiple emails but I was wondering if there were any other
>> system tools work to be done?
>> I am currently asking in the channel but decided to send you an email as
>> well.
>> Thank you,
>> -Mina
> Not exactly system tools stuff, but some other ideas might be setting
> up a test framework (probably based on
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+testing/testsuites
> ), updating our BIND resolver libraries to the latest version, getting
> the build system to correctly find dependencies when building in
> subdirectories.
>
> Anyone else have suggestions?

There is a major rework of the Makefiles that's needed to reduce 
complexity.  Someone willing to do that work, and instrument it to show 
now regressions (and I expect some significant wins from a greatly 
reduced complexity in Make and a lot less stat() calls) would certainly 
get a nod from me.

     - Garrett
> -Albert
>
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