| Steve Langasek 2005-03-18, 5:57 pm |
| On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:31:19AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
> David Schmitt wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Even not considering the problem I see with the Vancouver proposal
> regarding Debian identity and quality, I think *this* is one of the
> greatest problems: how much is this a problem with autobuilding being
> slow? Autobuilding being slow is a problem that has a number of
> interesting, _techinical_ solutions as, eg, incremental building,
> ccache, distcc, etc.
> And I had not a good answer on why such an important item (KDE taking 12
> days to compile on m68k???) was not addressed.
> A non-clean ccache, keeping .o files between successive would give a lot
> of boost on this.
Clearly, you have no concept of how much source passes through unstable each
day, and how big a ccache would have to be to be useful on a buildd...
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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