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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2023-02-05 23:32:05 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>2023-02-05 23:32:05 +0000
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Document execline and multicall
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ are small, so it does not cost much to duplicate the entire
source tree if parallel builds are needed.
-* Multicall binary - THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL.
+* Multicall binary
----------------
Starting with version 2.9.2.0, the execline package comes with an
@@ -188,10 +188,9 @@ called with, or the subcommand it is given: "execline cd / true"
will chdir to / before exiting, same as "cd / true" if cd is a link
to the execline program.
- To use this, after invoking configure, type: make multicall
- You can strip the binary with: make multicall-strip
- You can install it with: make multicall-install
- Be aware that it will overwrite a previous installation.
+ To use this, use the --enable-multicall option to configure. Only
+the execline binary will be built, and other programs will be
+created as symbolic links to execline at installation time.
The multicall setup saves a lot of disk space, at the price of
am unnoticeable amount of CPU usage. RAM usage is about equivalent