William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > I cannot understand why systems get faster, yet configure seems to > take the same amount of time and is super slow.
The generated configure scripts can be fork intensive, which is still fairly expensive. But I think the problem is more with poorly written configure source, which is the argument about mastering.. > On small projects configure can take longer than compile... Configure > is my main gripe against make/autotools. Plus all the other stuff, > auto-reconf, autogen, etc. configure having zero dependencies is the killer feature compared to all other options. The tight integration between configure and cross-toolchains is also a very strong point. > The larger the project, the slower configure can be. Doesn't have to be, but it's easy to write poor configure source and difficult to write good source. //Peter
