[vlc-devel] [PATCH] apple: build: avoid configure if already done

[Alexandre Janniaux]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:52:13PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le torstaina 13. helmikuuta 2020, 20.46.48 EET Alexandre Janniaux a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Actually, it's iOS. I don't know how and how often you build
> > for it but I use --config-cache locally and it takes 27 seconds
>
> 27 seconds is peanuts when configure needs to be rerun, as opposed to the time
> it takes without caching.

I don't think new contributors should endorse this time, or
the time to rewrite iOS build system.

>
> The fact that you run configure everytime

Actually I don't, I have this patch.

> is a self-inflicted problem of using a
> shell script instead of calling make directly. make anyway reruns configure, or
> even autoconf, when needed.

Are you suggesting you would rewrite the build system for iOS?
Or maybe you have a better way to compile for it? Please share
if so, it would be a better argument than telling me what I'm
doing. I recall that you didn't care about this platform but
maybe things have changed since that time.

I personnally can't spent that time and I'm just sharing what
I did to workaround the issue.

Regards,
--
Alexandre Janniaux
Videolabs