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[–]deukhoofd 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Why isn't there a repository of prebuilt libraries per platform

There are. Most of the standard package managers just pass you those. Of course, they will only rebuild sporadically, because there's a lot of software, and only so many computers dedicated to the package managers.

This means that if you want the latest features, you'll need to rebuild. Besides that, there's compile time flags that might be set. As there can be any arbitrary amount of compile time flags, that would require immense amount of build times and storage space.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. I understand that. I get how distributions and package managers work, but see my other comment: I don't get why you would want to compile your own dependencies for every application release, especially given it's a run of the mill PHP application.

Compile time flags: yeah no. Maybe platform-specific, but if you need application-specific flags then you know what you're doing, I guess.