Re: Paralizing configure

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/09/2011 05:03 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Marian Marinov<address@hidden>  writes:
> > We can start a new branch and see if it is worth the work. And if it is ok we
> > can then start the upgrade of all the code.
> >
> > I'm sure that there would be situations in which the tests must remain
> > sequental. However we can isolate them into bigger independent sections of
> > tests.
>
> At the least, constructs like
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stdint.h unistd.h fcntl.h sys/mman.h sys/stat.h])
> could check all the entries in parallel.

Only simple scenarios, in which headers and header search paths are 
static - This often doesn't apply to complex configurations.

Ralf