On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current > 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far > makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those > answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each line could be > dispensed with for most of them. Probably would need more than 2-3 > compiles to have all but rare ones answered. > > Some items really check a lot of things. > > I think it would be a major time saver when discussing huge numbers > of compiles.
You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs??? Har har. You must be new here. :-) That problem has been discussed about 486,212 times and solved about 0 times. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
