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On 02/01/2017 10:39 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:37:04AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 02:04:06PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>>> As I said on the bug, the downside is the addition of py3 and ninja as |
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>>> build time dependencies, but I think the upside (a build system where |
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>>> we don't have to worry about parallel make issues or portability) |
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>>> outweighs that. |
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>> Could you please link or otherwise explain the portability issue? |
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> I'm not talking about a specific instance, just the flexability you get |
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> with a build system. You let it handle the details of building |
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> executables, linking libraries, etc. |
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> I have heard from more than one person that the OpenRC makefiles are |
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> not written well, and I agree, so I've been looking for a build system |
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> for a while. |
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> I thought about autotools. I'm not really fond of its syntax, and I've |
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> been told that, to use autotools correctly, I would need to start |
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> generating manual release tarballs again because I would need to put the |
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> autotools generated cruft in them. |
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> I'm open to suggestions. I picked meson to experiment with because it |
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> has a very nice clean syntax. |
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> William |
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'TUP' is the fastest build system of the all? I believe many build |
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systems leverage or imitate what TUP does. I've read that for hand |
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crafting a specific build system, TUP is the most fundamental of the |
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building blocks. Here are a few links, there are many for your perusal:: |
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http://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html |
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12622097 |
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I think TUP would really shine in a build system for embedded and |
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otherwise constrained build environments (limited resources) but I have |
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not vetted that theory out, as I usually lean on others with greater |
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depth of understanding in such matters. Still, from what I read, TUP |
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warrants monitoring as new code contributions keep moving this blazingly |
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fast build system tool forward. If others have first hand experience |
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with TUP, I'd very much like to read about their comments and |
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experiences with TUP. |
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hth, |
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James |
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