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Friday 29 November 2002 19:43 skrev Karl Trygve Kalleberg: |
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> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:41:12 +0100 |
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> Per Wigren <wigren@××××.se> wrote: |
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> > Is it OK to add dev-lang/tcc as a build-dependancy? |
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> This makes for a _VERY_ interesting case. I think we should toy with this |
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> concept a bit, as we can save ~3hrs compilation time (provided your |
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> results are good, which I have all reason to think) and it's on a |
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> non-critical package. |
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> I suggest: |
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> 1) Only use tcc on platforms you have tested it on, so check ARCH and have |
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> a x86? dev-lang/tcc-<version> in your DEPEND. |
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I only tested with a manual build of tcc-0.9.14.. The latest in portage is |
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0.9.7 which is very outdated and 0.9.14 needs adding a #define in a file to |
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make it compile on gcc 3.x so I think we should wait for 0.9.15 because that |
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is already fixed in cvs so there will be no need for sed-hacking then... |
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> 2) Only leave tcc in the DEPEND= and specifically exclude it in RDEPEND |
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> (the assumption I make is that a tcc-compiled binary doesn't depend on a |
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> tcc runtime); all too often, build-time tools end up in RDEPEND, which is |
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> completely and utterly wrong. |
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I know, I always do that. I'm also annoyed with people not separating |
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DEPEND/RDEPEND... |
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> 3) Depending on how many packages can benefit from tcc, we may want to |
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> introduce a useflag for it. May, as it increases the total maintenance |
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> cost of the tree. |
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We should only try do it for packages that takes more than 10-15 minutes to |
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compile on a fairly fast machine... |
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> Have you done any tests to see how many of the "regular" packages compile |
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> nicely with tcc ? Can we compile XFree with it ? (Obviously mozilla is not |
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> a candidate, as it's largely written in C++). |
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I don't know about XFree, but I don't think there should be a problem.. TCC |
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supports 100% of ANSI-C, 90% of C99-specific things and the most common |
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GCC-extensions.. I read somewhere that they pass all test but 10 or so in |
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GCC's testsuite (which has THOUSANDS of tests!).. |
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> Kind regards, |
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> Karl T |
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