Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:07:35 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD? Message-ID: <B1F497BA-14D9-4694-856E-42A2534545E3@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <43E340E7.1080507@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu> <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de> <200602030257.27685.kstewart@owt.com> <43E340E7.1080507@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Feb 3, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: > Kent Stewart schrieb: >> On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: >>> The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to =20 >>> compile >>> all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: >>> 6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 >>> machine with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006). >> Differences like that usually point out a poor interaction between =20= >> the files and the make process. [...] > > As far as I know they use the wide spreaded tools automake, =20 > autoconf, libtool and pkgconfig to prepare the build process. I'm =20 > sure most users noticed that executing ./configure takes a lot of =20 > time in many cases. It may be that 7.0 takes so much time because =20 > it is frequently testing whether strlen() exists or not. :-P > > Bj=F6rn That's actually one of the crappiest parts about configuring =20 software packages. Half of the packages I installed were headers, so =20 why in the world should so many requirements be made to install =20 header files =3D) (even though, I am aware that inside the header may =20= be functions that call strlen(), for instance, as well as other =20 common C/C++ functions)? My personal thought on the issue? I believe that they should = mass =20 package all of the headers and prototypes into a metapackage, as well =20= as the smaller packages, just for people initially installing X =20 (former choice), as well as people just upgrading a module and =20 nothing much else (the latter case). -Garrett=
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