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authorLarry Knox <lrknox@hdfgroup.org>2019-06-12 19:13:48 (GMT)
committerLarry Knox <lrknox@hdfgroup.org>2019-06-12 19:13:48 (GMT)
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Add release note for enable-tools and enable-tests options.
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@@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ New Features
Configuration:
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+ - Add options to enable or disable building tools and tests
+
+ Configure options --enable-tests and --enable-tools were added for
+ autotools configure. These options are enabled by default, and can be
+ disabled with either --disable-tests (or tools) or --enable-tests=no
+ (or --enable-tools=no). Build time is reduced ~20% when tools are
+ disabled, 35% when tests are disabled, 45% when both are disabled.
+ Reenabling them after the initial build requires running configure
+ again with the option(s) enabled.
+
+ (LRK - 2019/06/12, HDFFV-9976)
+
- Change tools test that test the error stack
There are some use cases which can cause the error stack of tools to be