At Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:57:23 +0300, Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Distributed bulk builds really need passwordless SSH ?
>
> Random blog post about autoconf caching:
> https://jmmv.dev/2022/06/autoconf-caching.html
>
> using autoswc
>
> ====
> Unfortunately, as good as this may seem, autoswcʼs results arenʼt
> impressive. The main problem is that itʼs on you (the administrator) to
> curate the list of checks to cache. This is a very difficult task as it
> requires looking at what configure scripts are doing throughout a bulk
> build and determining which checks are safe to cache and which arenʼt, and
> ainʼt nobody have time for that.
>
> =====
I have and do use autoswc with good success on both NetBSD and macos,
though I only build a small fraction of the total of pkgsrc.
I even have a far more extensive configure.ac for it that "works for
me". :-)
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