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Re: Autoconf speedup
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Autoconf speedup |
Date: |
18 Apr 2002 17:02:46 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <address@hidden> writes:
Zdenek> Hi I've taken you address for autoconf list as you seems to be
Zdenek> an expert in this area (well as a developer you should be)
Nope, please write to the lists.
Zdenek> I'd like to know if there are any plans to improve the speed
Zdenek> of creation of makefiles ?
Zdenek> e.g. something like configure --for-gnu-only
Zdenek> This would create some short simple Makefiles and these would
Zdenek> include one global shared Makefile.inc where all the common
Zdenek> targets & defines would be specified.
This would complexify configure for little gain. Rather, use
CONFIG_SITE and a global config.cache if you want to take such risks.
Zdenek> I think there is a lot of projects which will work only on
Zdenek> modern systems anyway and there is no reason to remain
Zdenek> compatible with 20 year old wax machines in this case -
Zdenek> i.e. while developing avifile I do not plan to port this on a
Zdenek> box with 10 year old sparc machine - but it's very borring to
Zdenek> wait 30 second to regenerate configuraion & makefile while
Zdenek> this could be made in 6 seconds. Moreover these huge
Zdenek> makefiles nearly doubles the size of compressed project
Zdenek> (i.e. from 1.4MB to 2.1MB with configured files)
Zdenek> I'd be really happy to see such option - so there some plan or
Zdenek> at least is there some Wishlist where I could place this ?
Zdenek> bye
Re: Autoconf speedup, Russ Allbery, 2002/04/18