On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 20:50 -0700, Linda W wrote:
Is it possible to build samba without waf?
It has slowed down my local samba builds by a factor of 5-10x -- it
seems to lack
any parallelism, and on a 12 core machine, that really sucks.
Waf builds are quite parallel, just call make -j. Using this is a
standard part of our regular builds on our 24 way autobuild server.
When going through it's tests, it's noticeably slower than the configure
shell
tests that do the same...
But then the build/make parts all go by like molasses...
What is wrong with standard make tools that proprietary - going back a
generation
or two, stuff had to be used?
Waf is free software: https://code.google.com/p/waf/
What did it solve that wasn't solvable in a standard make?
It solved and solves many problems. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Waf
has some details. In short, we tried a perl and Makefile based system
for Samba4, and the issues that created lead us to seeking a new build
system.
See also BUILD_SYSTEMS.txt
https://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=blob;f=BUILD_SYSTEMS.txt;h=2aff56d81aa27c92c76bbba65632c3eef481e7b8;hb=HEAD
Maybe waf can be configured to create a standard makefile to handle
the more complex configuration parts, and then let make do what it does
best?
There is much more to our build system then just Makefile-like
construction.
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartletthttp://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
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