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Subject: Re: on current linux distros, what are potential candidates for ASSUME_PROVIDED?
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 03:25 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   for the sake of reducing build time in the classroom, what are some
> > of the potential (and relatively safe) candidates to add to
> > ASSUME_PROVIDED for a build from scratch?
>
> This path is fraught with danger to be honest. There are some things
> which are "safe" like subversion and git but they don't make that much
> difference to a build and there are not as many as you'd think.
>
> The biggest difference you can make is an sstate cache you share amongst
> the pupils. The time is spent:
>
> a) building gcc
> b) building libc
> c) building gettext
> d) building glib
>
> each of these is a bottle neck which then opens up a new set of targets
> as none of them are ASSUME_PROVIDED material.

  ok, fair enough.

rday

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