Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:01:21PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
>
>
>> If the goal is to build external to OpenSolaris FOSS with its own build
>> tools then moving those things out of ON into somewhere like SFW is a
>> great goal - and this is why I want OpenSSL out of ON.
>>
>
> I can't imagine a worse goal to have, other than obviously perverse
> ones like "make our software {less reliable, slower, harder to use}."
>
> What is the advantage to using build tools that are notoriously
> unreliable, often encode knowledge of the build server's
> configuration, and fail to use the contents of the proto area?
> OpenSSL is the poster child for proper integration of
> externally-developed software into the OpenSolaris software universe.
>
> I can understand wanting to decrease build time. This makes no sense.
>
My goal was in wanting to reducing build time, reduce storage and
bandwidth overheads.
I concur with respect to OpenSSL being nicely integrated into
OpenSolaris, however, I also am not sure that OpenSSL really needs to be
part of ON.
Compile time autoconfiguration is something that we most certainly do
*not* need, and only serves to perversely increase build times, storage
and bandwidth, etc.
-- Garrett
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