Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > It appears that PaSh itself isn't suitable for prime-time use. That's my current conclusion too: I tried running PaSh on - the configure script of a coreutils release, - gnulib-tool (a large shell script), and got a parse error in both cases [1]. Bruno [1] https://github

Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-15 Thread Warren Young
A Makefile can be viewed as a series of shell scripts interconnected by dependency rules that dictate which elements can be safely skipped, which must be run, and in what order. I believe it's possible to recast Autoconf so that it generates a Makefile that produces the same outputs as a configure