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List:       autoconf
Subject:    Re: optimizing configure with resident sub-processes?
From:       "Lars J. Aas" <larsa () sim ! no>
Date:       2001-06-19 9:04:30
Message-ID: 20010619110430.A13308 () sim ! no
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:39:33PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
: > I know the above doesn't work, but could it be done in some other,
: > hopefully portable, way?  Wouldn't it speed up configure by a lot if
: > we could apply it to the right sub-tasks?
: > 
: > I was even thinking the "resident" sub-process could be a shell that
: > looped over a read+switch/case expression to emulate functions, but as
: > I said, I never got the I/O quite working.
: 
: <DOS advocacy mode>
: Aaaarghhh! No No No! Aaaarghhh!
: 
: Let me reiterate: Aaaarghhh!

No need to get upset - I was only asking if this was possible in a portable
manner.

  Lars J


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