Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, James Troup wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > They should use --buind and --host because that saves on a very
> > CPU-expensive call to config.guess in the autobuilders.
>
> CPU-expensive?? I really wish people would give up trying to justify
> things with the incredible BS excuse of "saving CPU cycles on the
*shrugs* very well. Let's leave that as "They should use --build and --host
because that's what you're supposed to do so anyway (so as to use the proper
Debian-mandated architecture) most of the time, and it is a small bit
faster, too."
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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