On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:10:56PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>Lately I've been thinking that in a better world, the configure code
>would be integrated with the build system, so that the build system's
>dependency tracking could be used to order (and thus implicitly
>parallelize) the configure test
> "Ben" == Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> Has any thought been given to heading in this direction in the
Ben> future? On 8-way Linux machines, build times can be dominated by
Ben> the `configure' script--once configured, a tree can be compiled
Ben> in a fraction of the overall
With the exception of prerequisite tests, tests in Autoconf are
conceptually independent. You can carry out AC_PROG_LEX and
AC_PROG_YACC concurrently.
Has any thought been given to heading in this direction in the future?
On 8-way Linux machines, build times can be dominated by the
`configure' s
