As part of a shameless advertising move I suggest this patch. While it won't make autogen.sh exactly fast, for me it shaves half a minute off its runtime.
Cheers, Ralf HACKING: recommend parallel automake 1.11 execution. Index: HACKING =================================================================== --- HACKING (revision 21262) +++ HACKING (working copy) @@ -197,7 +197,15 @@ Running autogen.sh may take several minutes. It's not very exciting to watch. :-) + If you have an SMP system, say with 4 processors, be sure to use + Automake 1.11 or newer and enable threaded execution before running + autogen.sh (you can again put this in your shell startup files): + # For bash/sh: + export AUTOMAKE_JOBS=4 + # For csh/tcsh: + set AUTOMAKE_JOBS 4 + 5a. You generally need to run autogen.sh whenever the top-level file "configure.ac" changes, or any files in the config/ directory change (the config/ directory is where a lot of