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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user]  checking for.....
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwix () iway ! na>
Date:       2008-05-01 21:35:44
Message-ID: 200805012235.44788.uwix () iway ! na
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On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2008, reader@newsguy.com 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.

Fortunately, more packages go over to cmake. Just a matter of time.

Uwe

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