On 16/11/12 20:30, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> The real question is - what is the deliverable here ? building on >> windows under cygwin is -horribly- slow - if we can use the same >> compiler to cross-compile from Linux (as we can) and build around 50x >> faster - why would we want to do work & maintenance to keep that >> going ? :-) > > Oh! Do you know where that slowdown is coming from ?
evidently local file system (NTFS) is rather slow, and process creation is very slow (which is important for any make-based build system). but the slowness of building locally on Windows is nothing compared to the glacial pace at which a Windows build proceeds over network file systems like SMB; fortunately nobody has been doing that for years... >> Hopefully (when fully finished) the move to gnumake will at least strip >> out one layer of (dmake) grief that makes such things more painful than >> they really need to be. > > Does this also mean kicking out autotools ? LO doesn't use autotools, only autoconf. but of course many bundled external libraries use full autotools. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
