On Apr 7, 2005 5:54 PM, David Edelsohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> Ray Holme writes: > > Ray> 2) Much of the time is spent in the several iterations of building a > Ray> product doing the convfigure steps. These are repeated ad nauseum with > the > Ray> results being obtained the hard way each time. As a database person, it > Ray> seems to me that by perhaps having a small database of configuration > Ray> learned things (perhaps 3 key strings and one result string separated by > a > Ray> delimiter that awk recognizes) would allow the configuration to go much > Ray> faster. I would be happy to write a small shell script that extracts > Ray> information and another to add to such a database. The developer could > Ray> then point the make at where this default file is located using an > Ray> environment variable - make and configure could use it and update it. > Many > Ray> others are using your style configurations and could benefit from such a > Ray> database (gawk, gdb, .... as well as many others that copy your excellent > Ray> style). > > As mentioned in another message, the user shell can contribute to > a lot of the time. Sometimes the default system shell is very inefficient > and the configuration time could be improved by using GNU Bash. > > Also, the configuration process may look repetitive, but the > results might be different in each situation, so GCC needs to inquire > conservatively.
Also it helps a lot to remove paths to directories over the network (like NFS) from PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH if this is possible. Saves me half of bootstrap time with our crappy network setup here at university. Richard.
