>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Lately I've been thinking about speeding up config.status,
Tom> especially as regards automake.
I might be wrong, but I don't think today this is really needed: 2.50
has a much faster config.status.
Fileutils 4.0, Autoconf 2.12, 19 AC_OUTPUT
Fileutils 4.1, Autoconf 2.49e, 25 AC_OUTPUT
Tom> For automake it would be better if config.status simply created a
Tom> file with all the substitutions, like so: "FOO = @FOO@".
All but srcdir etc.
Tom> I know config.status is faster in 2.5x. But this would make
Tom> things faster still, at least for projects with more than one
Tom> directory that use automake.
I don't think the current speed is actually a bottle neck, but I
understand your thinking.
About config.status, I was thinking about something else: couldn't it
provide some --timestamping support? I don't know too well how it
works, I only have a vague idea, but it seems to me that Makefiles
could be a lot simpler if there were a mechanism to tell config.status
``behave � la move-if-change, but update this timestamp file each time
you decided not to update the file''.
Something like
./config.status --timestamp=stamp-h config.h
