Re: Autoconf speedup

[Zdenek Kabelac]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:02:43PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Kabelac <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Zdenek> I'm of course using config.cache - so that's why I'm complaing about
> Zdenek> Makefile creation - as the time of makefile processing is 
> Zdenek> aproximately 3 times as big as the whole process of detectecion.
> Zdenek> That's why I do believe it's really a problem which shuold be solved.
> 
> First, have Autoconf generate a single file that has all SUBSTs
> expanded:
> 
>     foo = <value of foo>
>     prefix = <value of prefix>
>     ...
> 
> This could be generated quite quickly.

I guess I would be more than happy if this would work currently
only with some option like

--compat-version-1.6

So for badly written Makefile.am it would use traditional way
but for this which doesn't containe  @VARS@ this would be major
speedup


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