On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:05 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Hendrik Leppkes (2018-06-14): > > I don't mind make itself, for me its configure thats the real problem. > > Its extremely slow (we're talking minutes), for me often taking longer > > then the actual compilation (especially with ccache) - and that is > > really extremely painful. > > IIRC, a change from the fork that was merged in the last few months made > configure much much slower. It could bear investigating. > > Yet, the arguments for make apply to configure too: it is written in > standard shell script, not some newfangled system that only a few people > know. >
And that exactly is the problem. Shell is horrible for this. It wants to be a real programming language but it just isn't. You could re-write configure in any actual language and so many of these problems would just be gone, and keep the remaining part of the build system as-is even. - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
