Are there any further objections to changing ubuntu-14.04-from-scratch to use static linking? If not, I'll make the change later today.
On 25 July 2017 at 12:41, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 24 July 2017 at 18:54, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Got it - thanks for the clarification! >> >> Also, I think I was unclear in my stated concern for new contributors. It >> seems to me that new contributors could choose to use the -so flag, even >> if >> the official pre-merge jobs doesn't, but that there is a cost to diverging >> from the pre-merge job in that it is hard to know what is to blame if your >> pre-merge job fails. >> >> > I understand the concern. My response would be that a) errors usually show > up in the shared linking case rather than the static case, so in practice I > think it's less likely to see errors during GVO that don't show up in local > development and b) if there are divergences at GVO time, there's usually an > engaged committer available to help newcomers out. > > If we see this become an issue, we could revisit this decision at the time. > > >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 24 July 2017 at 17:43, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > > On 24 July 2017 at 17:04, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > I had anticipated that shared linking would save time and disk >> space, >> > > but >> > > > > it sounds like, from your testing, it doesn't save much time. >> Does it >> > > > save >> > > > > disk space? >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > I haven't measured but I would expect not. Do we need to be very >> > careful >> > > > about disk space in the current configuration? >> > > > >> > > >> > > I don't think so, but since we are trying to entice new community >> members >> > > to commit patches, I am concerned about the cost on developer >> machines. >> > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > Does static linking save time when compiling incremental changes? >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > Again, I haven't measured. >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > I'm confused. You said, "Static linking doesn't take much longer in my >> > > unscientific measurements". >> > > >> > >> > I am also confused. I spoke about end-to-end builds on >> > ubuntu-14.04-from-scratch. I haven't measured incremental changes, >> unless >> > they're covered by that build. >> > >> >
