Re: compile problem

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > If the compile script is unnecessarily used, then compilation will be
> > even slower.  This seems particularly true for the Windows operating
> > system where compilation using libtool already feels like compiling in
> > molasses.  It seems that Windows is very slow at executing (fork/exec)
> > new programs.
>
> I'm not saying that the compile script should be used, just that the tests
> to determine whether it might be needed are run as a matter of course.
> Looking at the implementation of AM_PROG_CC_C_O, I see that it would need
> a bit of refactoring to make that happen...

It is much less of a problem if the configure script is a bit larger 
and runs a bit longer than if the overall compile becomes slower. 
When the supportive overhead to compile a large C file becomes larger 
than the time actually spent compiling that large C file then you know 
that something is wrong. :-)

Bob
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