On 24 July 2017 at 18:54, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Got it - thanks for the clarification! > > Also, I think I was unclear in my stated concern for new contributors. It > seems to me that new contributors could choose to use the -so flag, even if > the official pre-merge jobs doesn't, but that there is a cost to diverging > from the pre-merge job in that it is hard to know what is to blame if your > pre-merge job fails. > > I understand the concern. My response would be that a) errors usually show up in the shared linking case rather than the static case, so in practice I think it's less likely to see errors during GVO that don't show up in local development and b) if there are divergences at GVO time, there's usually an engaged committer available to help newcomers out.
If we see this become an issue, we could revisit this decision at the time. > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Henry Robinson <he...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 24 July 2017 at 17:43, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Henry Robinson <he...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > On 24 July 2017 at 17:04, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I had anticipated that shared linking would save time and disk > space, > > > but > > > > > it sounds like, from your testing, it doesn't save much time. Does > it > > > > save > > > > > disk space? > > > > > > > > > > > > > I haven't measured but I would expect not. Do we need to be very > > careful > > > > about disk space in the current configuration? > > > > > > > > > > I don't think so, but since we are trying to entice new community > members > > > to commit patches, I am concerned about the cost on developer machines. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does static linking save time when compiling incremental changes? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Again, I haven't measured. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm confused. You said, "Static linking doesn't take much longer in my > > > unscientific measurements". > > > > > > > I am also confused. I spoke about end-to-end builds on > > ubuntu-14.04-from-scratch. I haven't measured incremental changes, unless > > they're covered by that build. > > >
