On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to > > current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so > > far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all > > those answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each line > > could be dispensed with for most of them. Probably would need > > more than 2-3 compiles to have all but rare ones answered. > > > > Some items really check a lot of things. > > > > I think it would be a major time saver when discussing huge > > numbers of compiles. > > You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it > runs??? > > Har har. > You must be new here. > > :-) > > That problem has been discussed about 486,212 times and solved > about 0 times.
Fortunately, more packages go over to cmake. Just a matter of time. Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
