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Re: Ways to speed up configure
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Eric Sunshine |
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Re: Ways to speed up configure |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:03:57 -0500 |
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:36:49 -0600 (CST), Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The best way to speed up configure on Windows '98 is to upgrade to a
> newer version of Windows.
> Quite seriously, Windows '98 is *terrible* at spawning subprocesses,
> particularly since it must constantly update the DOS window with the
> name of the currently running program. The only way to make configure
> run significantly faster under Windows '98 is to put the configure
> script on a diet so it doesn't execute so many commands.
You can also use configure's -C option to enable caching. This can make
quite a difference on any platform (especially Windows) when re-running
configure. Note that you can hand-edit the config.cache file when needed,
and remove certain entries if you want configure to re-check just those
entries on subsequent runs.
It might also be worthwhile to set up a machine-specific cache file for your
installation. You can read about this in the Autoconf manual.
-- ES