On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:05:48 -0400, Freemor wrote: > > Greeting, > > This may be a foolish thought I'm not sure be cause so far my searching has > not turned up any detailed info. But... > > With all the recent ICU related rebuild I was noticing that most of the > Mozilla compiles include: > > ac_add_options --with-system-icu > > If we disabled that would we end up with less fragile builds of these things > or would it just make a heinous mess. If the former is is something we wont to > consider doing. > > I'll keep searching for info on the option but perhaps people more skilled > then I already know the answer.
There's a decades-old debate about "static linking" vs "dynamic linking". Most distros (with real package managers, at least) are in the "dynamic linking" camp. Both have real benefits though, and you're right, staticly linking against ICU would mean we'd avoid having to rebuild when ICU updates. Usually, the ICU trouble takes 12 hours at most. It's exacerbated right now because of several other things going on with Iceweasel at the same time (the trouble with ffmpeg 4, with firefox 60, having to hand the package off to someone else for a while...). -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.parabola.nu https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
