Re: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS vs. AC_CONFIG_FILES

[Bruce Korb]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> > Harlan Stenn wrote:
> >
> > > For packages that are "big enough" (ie, that have a large/slow run of
> > > "configure"), this is an unnacceptable solution.
> >
> >
> > Even small packages with few needs beyond what ought to be simple, 
> > vanilla
> > POSIX stuff require monsterous configs.  Isn't everything "big 
> > enough"?  :)
>
>
> The large size is due to the inclusion of a self-bootstrapping, 
> self-compiling, and fully-obfusticated (try to find it!), lisp 
> interpreter into every configure script. This is necessary in order to 
> observe GNU standards which specify that GUILE shall be the standard 
> language for scripts.  Is that a problem?

:-D.  Problem? no.  Irritant? si.  My build time is 20 seconds.
My configure time is about 2 minutes.  It just seems out of proportion.
Still and all, it's useful enough to put up with.

Cheers - Bruce