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Anyone ever try this site? How did it do on a regular Debian system? I was planning to upgrade my squeeze video server to wheezy in the next day or so and wondered if this was worth trying.
I've now looked at the site but I haven't tried apt-build. I'd say the best place to ask would be the Debian forum. You can hit the "Report" key and ask the moderator to move this to the Debian forum. I looked at your link at it does look interesting. I'd really be interested to hear from people who use it.
ciao,
jdk
To me it's similar to LFS, compiled from source.
IMHO you can get the same thing accomplished quite a few ways without compiling everything from source.
1 is to install just the base system & add only what is necessary to you or use debootstrap & install what you want.
I recently installed Testing/Jessie onto my laptop, first did my own optimized build of glibc and was amazed at the improvement. Then I read about apt-build. I first tried it on iceweasel but did not see the -march lines in the compilation execution; they might conceivably be hidden but others weren't. So I didn't let that go to completion, but did do gtk-2-0 and gtk-3-0 (I'm running MATE) and am seeing yet more improvement.
Last edited by jonathanbrickman0000; 12-02-2014 at 09:36 AM.
Hi Jonathan (my name too). This thread has been sitting idle for more than a year and a half. It's unlikely that the OP will still be checking it. If you're interested in discussing apt-build why not start your own thread.
jdk
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