On Feb 3, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Björn König wrote:
Kent Stewart schrieb:
On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote:
The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to
compile
all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both:
6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246
machine with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006).
Differences like that usually point out a poor interaction between
the files and the make process. [...]
As far as I know they use the wide spreaded tools automake,
autoconf, libtool and pkgconfig to prepare the build process. I'm
sure most users noticed that executing ./configure takes a lot of
time in many cases. It may be that 7.0 takes so much time because
it is frequently testing whether strlen() exists or not. :-P
Björn
That's actually one of the crappiest parts about configuring
software packages. Half of the packages I installed were headers, so
why in the world should so many requirements be made to install
header files =) (even though, I am aware that inside the header may
be functions that call strlen(), for instance, as well as other
common C/C++ functions)?
My personal thought on the issue? I believe that they should mass
package all of the headers and prototypes into a metapackage, as well
as the smaller packages, just for people initially installing X
(former choice), as well as people just upgrading a module and
nothing much else (the latter case).
-Garrett_______________________________________________
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