Boinc and future plans

[Guo Yixuan]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna <
costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> Hi, it might be the reason, I'll try an upload on experimental maybe just
to be sure!
> (I'll try before locally)
>
> I'm still wondering about this:
>
> "checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3"
>
> now it is
>
> "checking dependency style of gcc... none"
> It has changed with the changes in dh_configure
>
> don't know how important is it, just saw with meld of both build logs
> (shouldn't be the cause of the issue since this is "none" on all builds)
>
>
> Gianfranco

This is a result of my commit: df04d87 (use dh_auto_configure
instead of just ./configure). It passes a "--disable-dependency-tracking"
flag, which I think is the reason. The disabled part is meant to cache
source file dependency on all the headers, which might accelerate
compiling speed for upstream dev (but only for repeated build without
clean). The cost is a slower first build, which means always for Debian
packages, so debhelper disables it by default.

So in theory, this should not have any effect on build results, as
long as the upstream treat autotools as some blackbox and
doesn't try to interact with autotools internals. (Should be true
for most packages, with some exceptions: you may read
boinc-app-seti's debian/rules for example.)

Cheers,

Yixuan
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