On 27 Sep 2016 03:59, "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > At a brief look over GUB, the really big question in my mind is why on > > earth it seems to want to build *everything*. > > It wants to be _able_ to build everything, like autoconf.
Fine. But Autoconf doesn't ship with makefiles for everything. If it's a general tool, it ought not even mention Lilypond in the main makefile. Possibly not even the platforms it supports. If it's a Lilypond build tool, OpenOffice build rules don't belong in the distribution (unless OpenOffice is a dependency for Lilypond?) > You don't need to touch or maintain or use the OpenOffice rules ... It won't build OpenOffice unless you ask it to. I disagree. If it's distributed with OpenOffice build rules, then any changes to GUB would need to be regression tested by building OpenOffice. Is this the tool that Apache uses to build OO? > You'll find that none of the 24+ hours are spent in relation to > OpenOffice. The OpenOffice configuration affects the download size of > GUB, but that's a one-time cost and rather small. Yeah, I've worked that out. Actually trivial to temporarily comment out platforms you don't need. (Although it's still breaking for me...) Is there a buglist other than the TODO file? By the way, should this discussion have been in the Devel group? Chris
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