On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 21:08 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
- I really hope we can set all defaults correctly on Windows, so we
can build from a new checkout with the same amount of effort as we do now (almost zero).
With autotools? Even on Ubuntu, with apt-get build-deps and easy to aquire bzr, it's more difficult than I was expecting.
I wanted to test the build times between my machine Celeron toshiba vs my wife's new i7 System76 laptop. 4.5 hours vs 55 minutes. So, it's certainly faster to build than it used to be, although I guess the bulk of the time isn't make or autotools, but gcc.
But maybe if waf can compile things in a smarter way. Every time I edited document.h, I has to wait a long time for the compile because it currently compiles every included file (and I understand why it might need to) but perhaps some kind of manual command to say `make document.o only and relink`
I'd prefer waf because it's python, I wonder why there's a perl dep.
Martin,