From kde-devel  Tue Apr 26 09:39:45 2005
From: Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:39:45 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: A configurable configure?
Message-Id: <200504260539.45602.ben () meyerhome ! net>
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On Sunday 24 April 2005 5:41 pm, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I don't really know how feasible / desireable this is, I'm posting to
> this list instead of opening a feature request right away.
>
> The problem:
> The KDE-build system does about everything you might ever want from a build
> system. In fact, it may do a little more. I suppose, when building the main
> KDE-sources, all the various checks in ./configure serve a purpose.
> However, the KDE-build system (the admin dir) is also used for various
> third party KDE-application. KDevelop uses the KDE-build system for new
> projects. For such projects, all the test in ./configure are generally
> overkill. In my projects, the size of the configure script is close to
> reaching 1MB. It takes quite a while to complete even on relatively new
> machines. For many tests I can tell quite definitely that I simply don't
> need them. In fact, for some I can tell that most projects could care less
> about the result of those tests.

I had similar feelings when my little apps were turning out several MB sized 
releases.  Check out the bksys project.  I have been using it to build my 
internal projects lately and there is a bit of interest in possibly having 
KDE use it for KDE4. So far it has worked very well and makes much smaller 
releases for me :)

http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/bksys.html

-Benjamin Meyer

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