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'