Re: How to speed up 'automake'

[Markus Elfring]

> That is why I am looking at speeding up the Autotools steps.
>
> When I run this command, I get the following trace:
>
> time automake --verbose --warnings=all --add-missing --copy
>
…
> automake: thread 0: creating Makefile.in
>
> real    0m0,684s
> user    0m0,621s
> sys    0m0,085s
>
> It takes almost 0.7 seconds to generate the makefile


The manual is providing the following information.

“…

       Generate Makefile.in for configure from Makefile.am.
…”



> for a rather small project: around 50 .c and .cpp files, some of them in a 
> library, no libtool or anything fancy. Larger projects take longer.


I suggest to take further looks at corresponding software run time 
characteristics.


Can the command parameter “--verbose” (and tracing) be omitted for other 
program executions?



> Is there a way to speed 'automake' up?


Some software design possibilities might still be applicable.

How many efforts would you like to invest for desirable improvements?

Regards,
Markus