Re: Future plans for Autotools

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 1/25/21 5:37 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> > The only thing that would make much of a performance difference, I
> > think, is if we are able to replace lots of shell invocations with
> > built-in make functions like wildcard, if, etc.
>
> One other thing could be a significant performance win: if we could use GNU 
> 'make -j' to run most of the guts of the 'configure' script in parallel. 
> Waiting for 'configure' to finish is something that slows me down a lot; 
> often times 'configure' takes longer than the subsequent 'make', simply 
> because 'configure' is inherently sequential.

The challenge here is that a considerable part of configure scripts 
depend on decisions which were made before.  There is no dependency 
information currently in configure scripts.

Bob
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