On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:10:56PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>Lately I've been thinking that in a better world, the configure code
>would be integrated with the build system, so that the build system's
>dependency tracking could be used to order (and thus implicitly
>parallelize) the configure tests. This would also make it possible
>for the build system to directly drive configure requirements -- eg a
>"C compiler object" could depend on the "C compiler configure test
>object", and the simple addition of a C file to the build would end up
>causing new configury code to be run. Maybe in the next decade.
Would you mind speeding this up a little? It's a wonderful idea and I'd
like to see this in the next couple of months rather than the next
decade.
I mean, how hard could it be really? Just a few simple additions to
makefile syntax and you're done!
cgf
:-) (Do I really need this?)
