On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:12:04PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> 
> > The problem with automake+libtools is that it takes about twice as much
> > time as either scons, cmake or qmake in the 'building backend'.
> 
> On linux I don't see any difference wrt the previous setup.

Is thiss 'full recompile' or 'null make' or 'simple roundtrip'?
Also, do you use ccache?

> It takes about 15 minutes to build everything from scratch on my new
> laptop.

I.e. no ccache? If so, the compile times may outweigh the time spend on
libtools. That's not the case with ccache.

> I wonder how would you feel if you had to build on cygwin, where
> it takes more than an hour on the same hardware...
> 
> I back the request from Christian, and suggest that you revert your
> changes and work in a branch ;-)

I do that on Friday if things have not stabilized until then. Until then
I would be grateful to get reports on what configuration exactly is not
working.

Andre'

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