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Re: tarball builds
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: tarball builds |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:53:58 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I have the impression that nowadays it is at least as common to build
>> from Git as it is to build from the tarball. And building from the
>> tarball will usually involve installing stuff anyway.
>> E.g. to build Emacs from the tarball in a "typical" GNU/Linux install,
>> a common recommendation is to do something like:
>>
>> apt-get build-deps emacs24
>>
>> in which case, adding texinfo as a requirement is no big deal.
>>
>> I have the impression that the same holds for Mac OS X and for Windows
>> (tho the tools involved are similar) where users also already have to
>> install a bunch of dependencies and "one more or one less" doesn't make
>> much difference because those dependencies are provided by a packaging
>> tool (Macport's, Mingw's, you name it).
> It's not "one more or one less", it would require Autoconf and
> Automake as well, at least.
It's not "one", indeed, but the idea stands: a single "apt-get
build-deps" will bring them all in, whether they're 5 packages or 100.
> It will also make the build much longer: the release tarball currently
> builds in about 30 sec, whereas a full bootstrap takes 20 times that.
That's true. My impression is that it wouldn't matter, but that's just
a gut feeling backed by no evidence at all.
Stefan
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- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
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- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
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- Re: tarball builds, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds, Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/30
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/28