On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Lucas Holt <luke_at_foolishgames.com> wrote: > What if it was still included in tinderbox builds and releases. For the latter, the profiled versions could be in a separate distribution set much like doc or games. The ugly part is freebsd-update.. > > It could still be off by default in the buildworld as anyone smart enough to do source upgrades can toggle something in src.conf. > > This should make lazy devs happy, speed up build times for those upset about that, etc. it sucks for RE though. > > I was taught to use gprof in college and it was nice using the same tool on school sun and Linux boxes as well as my own iBook and FreeBSD desktop. > > This might be a fair compromise for now with a EOL date in a future release. At some point I assume dropping gnu tools with llvm transition makes sense > > Lucas Holt > > On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon_at_orthanc.ca> wrote: > >>> Isn't this about user choice, and making sensible defaults? >> >> There are two or three "users" out of thousands complaining about the default. If the extra build time bugs you that much, I'll contribute towards buying you better build hardware, too. OK. I am NOT a developer but have run -current as a user for extended intervals (v4 through V6) as I needed hardware support for my laptop that was not available in -stable. I'm sure I am not alone.I may be installing current again to get Intel KMS support for my Sandybridge. I did discover the amount of time spent building profile libs and turned them off in make.conf (later src.conf), but I think it is really, really silly to have a default in -stable that is used by almost no one. and wastes a little disk space and some time (it was a LOT on my old AMD 450 MHz system). Beyond that, for the relatively small number of folks using the libs and the trivial effort for those who do use it to turn the build on if it was made non-default, I can't really see the argument for building them in -current as a winner, either. But please, please turn it off in -stable at the very least. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.comReceived on Fri Dec 02 2011 - 20:14:58 UTC
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