Hi, Am Samstag, den 01.11.2014, 11:26 -0500 schrieb Austin Seipp:
How long does building those two llvm binaries take? If it is sufficiently quick, maybe that would be a suitable distribution for developers as well, and avoids having to separately build, distribute, download, and install the binaries.
In practice it takes a while... I haven't timed it, but I'd guess on average it adds about 30-40 minutes for most people just to build llvm. I'm not sure how many things we can disable to make the build faster, but I'd ballpark it at half an hour at best (it's a few thousand source files, after all).
This would mostly hurt if you cleaned up the tree later (e.g. 'make distclean'), which I do rather frequently in order to get a pristine build tree.
yes, me too. Which means that we’d have to go through the trouble of distributing binaries... But then: Do GHC developers actually need the LLVM binaries (unless they want to test the llvm backend, of course)? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org