Re: automake/autoconf/libtool -- convince me
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:17:31PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> [invoking autoconf/automake... at build time instead of shipping the
> results in the diff]
> Quoting autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
> | And it wastes CPU time in auto-builders, too. Do recall that some
> | architectures are very slow (m68k, for example), and that any wastage
> | of auto-build time is a severe problem for Debian as a whole (it
> | delays packages from moving to Debian testing, for one!).
>
> This might not be a very strong argument but it holds.
I'm not sure I've ever really believed this argument. Every time it's
made I seem to recall buildd maintainers standing up and saying "no,
there's not a shortage of buildd time, there's a shortage of human
time".
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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