I've noticed that when I do makes, a lot of time is spent by the system checking lots of stuff:
...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for i586-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking for i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
...


It occurs to me that these things don't change very often on my system, and that the answer to these checks could be cached, perhaps associated with a hash or date of certain config files, such as make.conf. Does this make any sense, or is it too unworkable and/or risky?

-Jeremy Schneider





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