Re: converting netkit to autoconf?

[Dan Kegel]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> > > > > > "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Paul> No, performance is by bigger problem for me, and I think for
> Paul> most people.  I have lots of disk space, and "configure" scripts
> Paul> compress well.  But my uniprocessors go only so fast, and
> Paul> currently "configure" scripts are sequential.  Right now, it
> Paul> sometimes takes longer to for me to configure a package than to
> Paul> compile it, and this is ridiculous.
>
> I second this :(  I'm not sure how we can fix this problem though :(

I have this problem in spades on Cygwin, which for some reason
runs configure scripts extremely slowly.  (Yeah, it's their bug,
but still...)  I wonder if there's some chance we could reduce the
number of fork/exec's involved in running configure.
- Dan