[3025] in SIPB bug reports
gnuserv not installed properly in sipbsrc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jul 9 23:10:38 1992
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 23:10:14 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: raeburn@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: ckclark@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 9 Jul 92 19:23:52 -0400 <9207092323.AA08508@tsx-11.MIT.EDU>
Marc has already pointed out one reason why installing unstripped
binaries in the locker and deleting object files in build trees isn't
such a good idea -- disk space in the sipb locker is at a premium.
There is another reason.... When debugging a program, it is a royal
pain in the ass to have to rebuild the entire program every time a bug
has to be tracked down or fixed. When someone asks for a new feature
in xscreensaver or reports a bug and I fix it, I'm sorry, but I don't
want to have to rebuild the entire program on five platforms.... I
want to be able to change one C file, rebuild one object file, and
relink on each platform.
Developer time is more expensive than disk space right now. Deleting
build trees conserves disk space while wasting developer time.
Leaving them intact uses more disk space but reduces wasted developer
time. I think the latter is the way to go.
jik
