Re: building deb-src packages

[Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:36:54AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Looks about right to me, although you want 'apt-get build-dep' in the
> former case too. You need to get build-dependencies as root, while
> everything else can be done as an ordinary user.
> 
> Actually, there's a note in the FAQ about doing this kind of thing,
> although it's at a lower level then either of these two (Debian has lots
> of different ways to do some things, mostly because people got
> dissatisfied with the interfaces presented by the existing tools and
> decided they wanted to write some wrappers to make things easier). It's
> here:
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html#s-sourcebuild
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

I have a related question. Does building your own packages actually
result in a speedup? For e.g., how much of a speedup is achieved in
compiling Mozilla for your particular architecture?

What sort of optimizations are needed for this?

Thanks,
Andy


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