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, Björn König wrote: > Kent Stewart schrieb: >> On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: >>> The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to >>> 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 >> the files and the make process. [...] > > As far as I know they use the wide spreaded tools automake, > autoconf, libtool and pkgconfig to prepare the build process. I'm > sure most users noticed that executing ./configure takes a lot of > time in many cases. It may be that 7.0 takes so much time because > it is frequently testing whether strlen() exists or not. :-P > > Björn That's actually one of the crappiest parts about configuring software packages. Half of the packages I installed were headers, so why in the world should so many requirements be made to install header files =) (even though, I am aware that inside the header may be functions that call strlen(), for instance, as well as other common C/C++ functions)? My personal thought on the issue? I believe that they should mass package all of the headers and prototypes into a metapackage, as well as the smaller packages, just for people initially installing X (former choice), as well as people just upgrading a module and nothing much else (the latter case). -Garrett
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