Re: [bug-gettext] replacing autotools with meson?

[Petr Ovtchenkov]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:41:43 +0300
Alexander Kanavin <address@hidden> wrote:

> ...
> Which brings us to gettext. It is on a critical path for almost anything 
> (in the dependency tree it comes shortly after building the 
> cross-compilation C toolchain, including cross-gcc, and is needed for 
> almost anything else). So watching how it takes several minutes to 
> configure itself, while nothing else can proceed in the build is not a 
> good use of time, and we would like to solve this bottleneck. Similarly, 
> we run automated builds (for multiple common architectures and 
> scenarios) several times a day to establish that new changes don't cause 
> breakage, and want to make those faster as well.
> 
> For what its worth we can build a complete Linux system, including the 
> gcc cross toolchain used during the build in around 1-1.5 hours 
> depending on the build hardware used.
> 
>

Then you try to add extremely unstable build framework that based on
python (that itself has many incompatible variations and has problems with
cross-compiling) --- for important component, right?

Hmm, thanks, I would prefer to spend a few minutes with current process.

WBR,

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  - ptr