On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:50:51 +1030, Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> wrote:
? GNU gcc is by now impossible to build on HP-UX. ? Projects that switch(ed) to meson/ninja won't build outside Linux ? Projects that require new(er/est) gcc won't build on OS's that won't build gcc
Interestingly related to this discussion I read from the Meson twitter account this morning "Switching to Meson made KornShell's build time 35x faster. Not 35 percent, 35 times." which is a pretty compelling argument for making a change.
Maybe they forgot that make supports -j35 meson is "parallel" by default, make is not And I fully subscribe to Dominique's comment, but that might be obvious -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.29 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/