./configure -C

2011-08-07 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello all, Brian Gough wrote, back in February [0]: In his talk about Autotools at the FOSDEM GNU Dev Room, Ralf Wildenheus mentioned an autoconf option that I wasn’t aware of. It’s the “-C” option and it enables caching, which speeds up multiple runs of a ./configure script enormously.

Re: ./configure -C

2011-08-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 08/07/11 14:46, Andy Wingo wrote: It came to my attention that some GTK+ folks were not aware of this, as I wasn't, before seeing Ralf's presentation. See http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/Cache-Files.html for more info. I think you'll find that when hacking on your projects,

Re: GLIB, libffi and Windows

2011-08-07 Thread Dieter Verfaillie
On 07/08/2011 19:33, Kean Johnston wrote: I am trying to compile master on Windows. gclosure.c doesn't compile due to not having ffi.h. The presence of this is not tested in configure, and there is no mention of it being a requirement in INSTALL. Having taken a look at the offending file

Re: GLIB, libffi and Windows

2011-08-07 Thread Kean Johnston
On 8/7/2011 8:16 PM, Dieter Verfaillie wrote: On 07/08/2011 19:33, Kean Johnston wrote: I am trying to compile master on Windows. gclosure.c doesn't compile due to not having ffi.h. The presence of this is not tested in configure, and there is no mention of it being a requirement in INSTALL.

Re: GLIB, libffi and Windows

2011-08-07 Thread Fan Chun-wei
Hi Kean (and list), I have asked on IRC few weeks ago regarding the inclusion of libFFI in the GLib sources, but the response that I receive is that there is no plans (at least at that time) to include the libFFI sources in the GLib sources, and that was from one of the core devs, AFAICT. So