Hi,
Am Samstag, den 01.11.2014, 11:26 -0500 schrieb Austin Seipp: > > How long does building those two llvm binaries take? If it is > > sufficiently quick, maybe that would be a suitable distribution for > > developers as well, and avoids having to separately build, distribute, > > download, and install the binaries. > > In practice it takes a while... I haven't timed it, but I'd guess on > average it adds about 30-40 minutes for most people just to build > llvm. I'm not sure how many things we can disable to make the build > faster, but I'd ballpark it at half an hour at best (it's a few > thousand source files, after all). > > This would mostly hurt if you cleaned up the tree later (e.g. 'make > distclean'), which I do rather frequently in order to get a pristine > build tree. yes, me too. Which means that we’d have to go through the trouble of distributing binaries... But then: Do GHC developers actually need the LLVM binaries (unless they want to test the llvm backend, of course)? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nome...@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nome...@debian.org
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