Re: parallelization of ./configure compiler test processes

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-03-29 13:12, Danny McClanahan wrote:
>      - I've been perusing clones of the autoconf and automake codebases and 
> I've been unable to locate the logic that actually executes each test in 
> sequence.

That's because sequencing is implicit. Autoconf generates 'configure', 
which is a shell script, and shell commands are executed in sequence.

Since a test can depend on a previous test's results, parallelizing that 
shell script would be tricky: it'd mean Autoconf would need to know 
which tests depend on which other tests, and this information is only 
partly specified now.

Rather than try to re-engineer Autoconf, have you tried executing the 
'configure' scripts with PaSH? See <https://binpa.sh/>.