On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Harlan Stenn wrote:
If it sucks, it seems to be exceedingly minor suckage to me since you
can have as many build trees as you want using one source tree.
Sometimes it is easier to go with the flow.
You have clearly not spent much time with large auto*-based build
systems.
I'm talking about software packages that, on hot machines, take 30-45
minutes to do a "configure" run.
I assure you that I have spent quite a bit of time watching configure
run. So I take steps to ensure that configure runs faster. One of
these steps is to avoid recursive configures, eliminate unnecessary
configure tests, and even avoid recursive makes. The other obvious
step is to purchase faster computers.
The smart developer arranges his build environment so configure needs
to be run as seldom as possible.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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