Re: Cygwin build report on Windows XP

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Simon Josefsson wrote on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:49:19AM CET:
> The build times are interesting:
> 
> gnulib-tool: 324 minutes
> ./configure: 36 minutes
> make check: 34 minutes
> 
> Now, gnulib-tool invokes run ./configure too, but that seems like just a
> small fraction of the time it spends.

I would volunteer to dig out and forward-port my gnulib-tool
optimization patches that cut its execution time in half,
if there is a nonzero chance of them being accepted.  Last time,
Bruno rejected them as unmaintainable.

(FWIW, I'd also volunteer to maintain that part of the code.)

Cheers,
Ralf