Re: gnulib-tool: an autobuild facility

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >   2) Transfer this directory to a build machine (HP-UX, Cygwin, or 
> > whatever).
> 
> Step 2 can be simplified by doing:
> 
> ./configure
> make dist
> 
> since gnulib-tool already create a dummy configure.ac that
> AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR include every gnulib module.  Running this
> ./configure takes a considerable amount of time, though.

Yes, this "./configure" of all modules takes a long time. Whereas the
"transfer this directory to the build machine" task can be a simple 'cp'
command or even a no-op, if you're using NFS.

Bruno