On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ilya Chernykh neptunia@mail.ru wrote:
On Monday 14 March 2011 23:19:40 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Not to mention the time required for building the following packages:
kdelibs: with Automake: 50 minutes
Even with parallel compiling?
Parallel compiling would probably speed things up, but looking at the results, cmake would still likely be faster when comparing both in parallel.
I remember seeing somewher (I think either IRC or the wiki, will have to check) that some of the stuff doesn't build will in parallel, while some of it does
This is true. kdelibs/kdebase don't build in parallel due to some sort of Automake glitch.
As I mentioned before, it is just too easy to mess Automake up in a variety of very hard to trace ways. I can attest to this; the latest autoconf versions won't even find certain core libraries any more. Nothing changed in the Trinity automake files, and I have been unable to resolve the problem despite spending several weeks looking for a fix.
CMake is the future--it offers more functionality, faster build times, less opportunities for breakage, and to top it all off no functionality is lost compared to Automake.
Tim