Zack Weinberg wrote: > > It's regularly reported to the GCC list that libstdc++'s configure > script takes several hours to execute on certain proprietary Unixes, [[...]] > It is trivial to write a short C program that [[...]] > I see only two problems with this approach: [[...]] > Thoughts?
Is it past time yet to have a common tool infrastructure that is *required* to be installed prior to other tools? It seems to me that uncountable numbers of man-years are wasted solving inane inconsistencies in wide varieties of projects when a common tool base could easily solve it. "autoconf" would likely be a good spawning ground for such a thing. Much of the needed infrastructure is already here.....Perhaps a stripped down bash would be an early member of such a collection? -- Bruce Korb <first initial + last name at gnu dot org> AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net
