On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:36:49 -0600 (CST), Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The best way to speed up configure on Windows '98 is to upgrade to a > newer version of Windows. > Quite seriously, Windows '98 is *terrible* at spawning subprocesses, > particularly since it must constantly update the DOS window with the > name of the currently running program. The only way to make configure > run significantly faster under Windows '98 is to put the configure > script on a diet so it doesn't execute so many commands.
You can also use configure's -C option to enable caching. This can make quite a difference on any platform (especially Windows) when re-running configure. Note that you can hand-edit the config.cache file when needed, and remove certain entries if you want configure to re-check just those entries on subsequent runs. It might also be worthwhile to set up a machine-specific cache file for your installation. You can read about this in the Autoconf manual. -- ES
