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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 01:44:05
Message-Id: 20171125013522.GP4167@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
2 > Or uber minimal, can't get much smaller still 5.20s
3 > https://travis-ci.org/Obsidian-StudiosInc/asspr#L165
4 > https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/asspr/blob/master/configure.ac
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6 That takes 2.0s here, on quite old hardware, though with primed cache.
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9 > #secondsmatter :)
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11 Yeah! :)
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14 > The dependency aspect I agree with 100%. I think even cmake has more.
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16 cmake itself is the dependency. ;)
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19 > Or who cares about end users, its all about saving devs time, no clue.
20 > #mesonbandwagon
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22 End users generally consume behind a distribution build process, so
23 yes, it's all optimization for development time, which makes some sense.
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26 //Peter