On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:41:43 +0300 Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> ... > Which brings us to gettext. It is on a critical path for almost anything > (in the dependency tree it comes shortly after building the > cross-compilation C toolchain, including cross-gcc, and is needed for > almost anything else). So watching how it takes several minutes to > configure itself, while nothing else can proceed in the build is not a > good use of time, and we would like to solve this bottleneck. Similarly, > we run automated builds (for multiple common architectures and > scenarios) several times a day to establish that new changes don't cause > breakage, and want to make those faster as well. > > For what its worth we can build a complete Linux system, including the > gcc cross toolchain used during the build in around 1-1.5 hours > depending on the build hardware used. > > Then you try to add extremely unstable build framework that based on python (that itself has many incompatible variations and has problems with cross-compiling) --- for important component, right? Hmm, thanks, I would prefer to spend a few minutes with current process. WBR, -- - ptr
