Eric Blake wrote: > At this point, we're pretty good about picking up gnulib dependencies > without having to be warned about them. The time spent in configure > to check for declarations is pretty expensive, and really only needs > to be done by a maintainer every once in a while, rather than by > every downstream client on every configure run. > > * configure.ac (gl_ASSERT_NO_GNULIB_POSIXCHECK): Comment out, > with a note why. > --- > > I've been camping on this one for a long time; I guess it would be > even more impressive if I compared benchmark numbers of the timing > difference between using this patch and omitting it.
I timed it. Before the change, running "env time --f=%e ./configure" (best of 3) gave this: (using ccache and an ext4/SSD) 52.89 After that change: 46.31 i.e., saving over 6 seconds (more than 10%).
