From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Building programs (Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:05:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpMOCQOUQs18Qi+yjAHxHVMGguYJQYqA26iVAQByMjiyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cej5gsp.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 5:35 PM Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> writes:
>
> > To build a set of objects you need to worry about at least the
> > following:
> > - build recipes for each of them (which may also depend on other
> > things)
> > - configuration parameters
> > - dealing with differences on each platform
> > - third party libraries & alternatives
> > - toolchains (& may be cross-platform builds)
> > - supporting/navigating different versions of the last 3 above
> >
> > You can't really precompute all this as there are far too many
> > combinations and they keep changing.
>
> Both the blog author (who is a long-time sysadmin with many 'war
> stories') and myself understand all that.
>
> i believe the idea is not for precomputing to be done by _builds_,
> but to be done on and for a given machine and its configuration,
> independent of any specific piece of software, which is then
> _queried_ by builds. That precomputation would only need to be
> re-run when one of the things under its purview changes.
>
> If i compile something on one of my OpenBSD boxen in the morning,
> and then compile some other thing in the afternoon, without an OS
> upgrade in-between, autoconf isn't going to find that libc.so has
> changed in-between. If i did the same thing on my Gentoo box, it's
> theoretically possible that e.g. i've moved from glibc to musl
> in-between, but in that case, precomputation could be done in
> postinst (i.e. as part of the post-installation-of-musl process).
>
Isn't that what thecautoconf cache is for?
Warner
>
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2024-06-13 14:56 [TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2024-06-13 15:33 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2024-06-13 15:35 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Larry McVoy
2024-06-13 15:41 ` Alan D. Salewski
2024-06-13 15:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-13 15:39 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Clem Cole
2024-06-13 16:47 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2024-06-13 18:39 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-13 18:45 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Mychaela Falconia
2024-06-14 8:59 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-13 18:54 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Dan Cross
2024-06-12 19:29 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' " Greg A. Woods
2024-06-13 20:03 ` Dan Cross
2024-06-13 17:07 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-14 14:17 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-06-16 5:48 ` Alexis
2024-06-15 8:48 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-16 19:44 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 0:10 ` Peter Yardley
2024-06-17 0:29 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-17 1:01 ` Alexis
2024-06-17 1:21 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-17 1:25 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 1:32 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-17 19:21 ` Stuff Received
2024-06-17 19:28 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 22:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-16 7:57 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-17 23:44 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-18 0:06 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-18 22:44 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-19 2:33 ` David Arnold
2024-06-18 1:52 ` Steve Nickolas
2024-06-18 4:52 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-18 22:50 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-18 23:03 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-18 23:27 ` ron minnich
2024-06-19 1:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-06-19 1:42 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-19 23:28 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-20 5:01 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2024-06-20 5:09 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-20 5:18 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-20 18:34 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-20 18:41 ` Adam Thornton
2024-06-20 19:59 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-20 20:12 ` ron minnich
2024-06-20 20:22 ` Adam Thornton
2024-06-20 20:29 ` ron minnich
2024-06-21 15:46 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 16:06 ` Henry Bent
2024-06-21 16:24 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 16:40 ` Henry Bent
2024-06-21 16:52 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-21 17:25 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 17:31 ` Phil Budne
2024-06-21 17:55 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-20 20:19 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-20 20:34 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-20 21:00 ` ron minnich
2024-06-20 21:53 ` David Arnold
2024-06-20 22:00 ` ron minnich
2024-06-20 22:11 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-20 22:35 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-21 13:57 ` Stuff Received
2024-06-20 19:57 ` [TUHS] Version 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home Jim Capp
2024-06-20 8:05 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register Steve Nickolas
2024-06-19 2:38 ` David Arnold
2024-06-19 22:52 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-19 0:08 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 0:46 ` Nevin Liber
2024-06-19 1:00 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-19 3:07 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 3:14 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 3:36 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-19 6:50 ` arnold
2024-06-19 11:28 ` sjenkin
2024-06-19 9:00 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-19 13:28 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-19 14:44 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-19 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-19 15:08 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-19 15:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-06-19 15:16 ` ron minnich
2024-06-19 15:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-19 22:48 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-20 5:14 ` David Arnold
2024-06-20 5:32 ` George Michaelson
2024-06-20 6:37 ` Alexis
2024-06-20 7:07 ` David Arnold
2024-06-20 21:07 ` [TUHS] Building programs (Re: " Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-06-20 23:35 ` [TUHS] " Alexis
2024-06-21 0:05 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2024-06-21 0:34 ` Alexis
2024-06-21 0:54 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-21 1:06 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-06-21 1:32 ` Alexis
2024-06-21 1:43 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-21 16:07 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 0:35 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-06-21 1:15 ` Alexis
2024-06-21 1:43 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-21 13:58 ` Alan D. Salewski
2024-06-21 0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-21 0:49 ` Alexis
2024-06-21 1:22 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-06-21 1:44 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-21 15:57 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-22 0:04 ` Alexis
2024-06-22 17:53 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-22 18:15 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-22 21:16 ` David Arnold
2024-06-23 0:29 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-06-23 18:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-23 18:56 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-23 20:15 ` Stuff Received
2024-06-24 14:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-24 14:33 ` Dan Cross
2024-06-24 15:17 ` Warner Losh
2024-06-24 15:23 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 15:41 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-21 15:38 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-06-20 20:14 ` Alexander Schreiber
2024-06-16 6:43 ` Wesley Parish
2024-06-16 21:56 ` David Arnold
2024-06-16 23:34 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-16 23:46 ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-17 21:40 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-06-17 0:54 ` Åke Nordin
2024-06-18 5:55 ` Alexis
2024-06-18 6:39 ` Michael Kjörling
2024-06-13 19:37 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Alan D. Salewski
2024-06-13 20:05 ` Clem Cole
2024-06-13 20:31 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-06-13 20:06 ` A. P. Garcia
2024-06-13 20:26 ` Jim Capp
2024-06-13 21:35 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Larry McVoy
2024-06-14 0:27 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Alexis
2024-06-14 0:59 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' ??? " Larry McVoy
2024-06-14 1:11 ` Luther Johnson
2024-06-14 1:42 ` Alexis
2024-06-14 4:22 ` ron minnich
2024-06-14 6:54 ` Angel M Alganza
2024-06-14 7:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-14 7:33 ` arnold
2024-06-14 7:34 ` Andy Kosela
2024-06-14 7:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-14 11:31 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2024-06-13 20:26 ` [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' • " Dave Horsfall
2024-06-14 11:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2024-06-14 12:21 ` A. P. Garcia
2024-06-18 12:02 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2024-06-23 0:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-23 1:47 ` Alexis
2024-06-23 19:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-23 20:04 ` Alexander Schreiber
2024-06-24 13:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-24 14:21 ` Dan Cross
2024-06-26 7:39 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-24 15:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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