* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:56:32PM CET: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:18:27PM CET: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:37:09AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Put `CONFIG_SHELL' > > > in environment of `configure', not the command line. > > ... > > > OK to apply? > > > > a quick answer: why is it necessary to have this? > > Because you definitely want the shell searching routine as early as > possible in the configure script: everything before it will possibly be > executed more than once, and thus causes further slowdown. > > Furthermore, there are users of CONFIG_SHELL before the parsing loop > within Autoconf itself, it's not just libtool: _AC_INIT_DEFAULTS comes > before _AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS, even AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED itself does.
I have applied that patch now. Cheers, Ralf
