On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:58:02PM +0000, Russ Allbery wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It takes a lot of time, and prevents builds repeatability, in the > > sense that when autotools have backward compatibility issues, it breaks, > > not to mention that you need all the *.m4 files around to generate the > > configure properly. > > I tend to be on the side that says that the input files to autotools are > the real source and it's usually better to build the whole package from > source, particularly when upstream isn't shipping pre-built files for > convenience. > > It does mean that part of the build process is arch-independent, but > generally running the autotools doesn't take *that* long compared to the > actual compilation, and it's hardly the only arch-independent part of > package builds we have.
Well, tell that to arm or m68k buildds. On some KDE packages, autoconfiguring can *literally* take hours. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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