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On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:20:38 +0000 |
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Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > I cannot understand why systems get faster, yet configure seems to |
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> > take the same amount of time and is super slow. |
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> The generated configure scripts can be fork intensive, which is still |
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> fairly expensive. |
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> But I think the problem is more with poorly written configure source, |
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> which is the argument about mastering.. |
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Not sure what can be done for minimal ones. |
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Meson 1.20s |
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https://travis-ci.org/Obsidian-StudiosInc/entrance/builds/291848344#L1033 |
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Before I switched to meson |
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Configure/autotools 5.52s |
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https://travis-ci.org/Obsidian-StudiosInc/entrance/builds/270985567#L963 |
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Original configure I dropped for meson |
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https://git.enlightenment.org/misc/entrance.git/tree/configure.ac |
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Or uber minimal, can't get much smaller still 5.20s |
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https://travis-ci.org/Obsidian-StudiosInc/asspr#L165 |
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https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/asspr/blob/master/configure.ac |
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#secondsmatter :) |
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> > On small projects configure can take longer than compile... |
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> > Configure is my main gripe against make/autotools. Plus all the |
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> > other stuff, auto-reconf, autogen, etc. |
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> configure having zero dependencies is the killer feature compared |
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> to all other options. The tight integration between configure and |
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> cross-toolchains is also a very strong point. |
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The dependency aspect I agree with 100%. I think even cmake has more. |
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Meson requires python, so that alone has a big dependency chain. Which |
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some what surprises me so many with libraries are going that route. I |
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guess they figure it is not core, python likely to be present. |
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Or who cares about end users, its all about saving devs time, no clue. |
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#mesonbandwagon |
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> > The larger the project, the slower configure can be. |
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> Doesn't have to be, but it's easy to write poor configure source and |
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> difficult to write good source. |
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I would assume then most are poorly written, as I have yet to see a |
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fast configure. Beyond say the one for asspr. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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