On 23 July 2002, Tom Tromey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: | William> Good, except that configuration runs are abysmally slow. | | Have you enabled caching? That is the first thing I'd try. It will | help but won't solve the problem; each configure script has a certain | amount of unavoidable overhead; your particular configuration | multiplies this overhead by the number of modules.
Caching definitely helps, but I also agree with the rest... | William> The sticking point is getting automake, when run from the top | William> level, to generate something other than a Makefile.in in each | William> module directory, so the module's local Makefile.in doesn't | William> get clobbered. | | Just when you think you've heard it all... :-) Heh, I was afraid you were going to say something like that. | William> I know this is a hack, but could automake play along with | William> this, and would this work? Alternatively, is there a cleaner | William> way to achieve this goal? | | Well, you could try it. One horrible thought I had is that you could | AC_SUBST(AM_MAKEFLAGS) in configure, and set AM_MAKEFLAGS to something | like `-f OtherMakefileName'. I don't know if this will work; you | could give it a try. | | Tom Thanks for the help, both you and Rob. I'll see what I can come up with. -- | William Robertson | GPG:0x90A3BED4 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
