"Joel Jacobson" <j...@compiler.org> writes: > I don't have much experience in this area, but I noted there is > an AC_CACHE_SAVE feature to speed up rerunning ./configure, > necessary when it stops with an error due to some missing dependency. > Is there a good reason why AC_CACHE_SAVE is not used?
Dunno ... it looks like that adds cycles to non-error cases, which seems like optimizing for the wrong thing. In any case, right at the moment is probably a bad time to be working on improvements for configure per se. We can come back to this if the meson idea crashes and burns. regards, tom lane