On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:01:58PM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote: > >>>> just as you suggest? Ie, let the makefile perform the concatenation? > >>> It's an interesting suggestion. > >> I've added this feature to the cmake build: > >> > >> cmake ../trunk/development/cmake -Dmerge=1 > >> > >> then all *.C files but the files of the boost and the qt4 directories > >> are merged into one file. This happens while the configure process. > >> On windows it runs without changes to a actual co, for linux you need > >> the attached patch. > >> And it is faster!! > > > > Do you have numbers? > > files multiple merged (in minutes) > ---------------------------------------------- > cmake msvc debug 17 9 > cmake msvc release 19 10 > Linux cmake 21 11 > Linux auto/make 54 -- > > > Is make really so slow? I've called autogen, ./configure, make, > is this correct?
make by itself is not slow. However, it calls a lot of external programs, some without too much benefit as libtool and we (i.e. autotools) are using it recursively. There's some nice article somewhere on the net why this should be avoided... Andre'
