[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Matthieu Patou]

On 05/21/2013 03:49 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:28:53PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:38:08AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> I agree that 4.1 would be a good opportunity to remove the
>>>> support for the autoconf build, as I am personally confident
>>>> enough with the waf build as the major build system.
>>>>
>>>> But I think before taking the step, we should verify
>>>> the current state of the config results - the bug #8969
>>>> you mentioned has not been updated in a long time.
>>>>
>>>> And maybe we can get some voices here of people using
>>>> Samba file servers on various Unixes and of the distributors
>>>> (of Linux, but also BSD flavours maybe).
>>> Can we make it easier to compile just one binary, for
>>> example smbtorture or so? I am right now messing with talloc
>>> for example, and if I change talloc.h, it will recompile
>>> almost everything before it even thinks about linking
>>> smbstatus. Also, the startup time even on a beefy laptop is
>>> several seconds before it even starts *something*. This
>>> makes coding central components much more tedious than with
>>> the autoconf build.
>>>
>>> I know that from an ivory tower perspective changing
>>> talloc.h requires rebuilding everything, but in my real
>>> world I know what I'm doing and I don't need 100% precision.
>>> What I need is quick turnaround with a possible fallback to
>>> git clean -dxf.
>> IIRC
>>
>> ./buildtools/bin/waf build --targets=smbtorture
> Thanks!
>
> That does save linking of all non-involved libs and
> binaries, but it will still compile everything first. At
> least it did, when I last tried.
Have you tried the gold linker ? Micheal suggested me at XP and I must 
confess that it makes things way more faster when linking.
For the moment wafbuild is only able to use the system linker but it 
should be very hard to teach him how to use another linker for the one 
who don't want to use it by default (the gold linker)

Matthieu

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Matthieu Patou
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