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

2022-06-18 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/06/13 15:39, Paul Eggert wrote: In many Gnu projects, the 'configure' script is the biggest barrier to building because it takes s long to run. Is there some way that we could improve its performance without completely reengineering it, by improving Bash so that it can parallelize '

How to prevent warning "The macro `AC_PROG_CC_C99' is obsolete"

2022-06-18 Thread R. Diez
Hi all: Macro AC_PROG_CC_C99 is obsolete as of Autoconf version 2.70 . Projects like OpenOCD are resorting to this kind of workaround: m4_version_prereq([2.70],[],[AC_PROG_CC_C99]) You can see it here: https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/master/tree/configure.ac Other projects are doi

Re: How to prevent warning "The macro `AC_PROG_CC_C99' is obsolete"

2022-06-18 Thread Paul Eggert
On 6/18/22 09:57, R. Diez wrote: The trouble is, with the m4_version_prereq solution mentioned above, I am still getting the following warning, Actually, the trouble is that OpenOCD is not consistently using the m4_version_prereq solution. You're getting the message from the unprotected call

Re: How to prevent warning "The macro `AC_PROG_CC_C99' is obsolete"

2022-06-18 Thread R. Diez
Actually, the trouble is that OpenOCD is not consistently using the m4_version_prereq solution. You're getting the message from the unprotected call to AC_PROG_CC_C99 in openocd-code/src/jtag/drivers/libjaylink/configure.ac. I hadn't realised, many thanks for your help. That file actually

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

2022-06-18 Thread Tim Rühsen
Hi all, On 14.06.22 00:39, Paul Eggert wrote: In many Gnu projects, the 'configure' script is the biggest barrier to building because it takes s long to run. Is there some way that we could improve its performance without completely reengineering it, by improving Bash so that it can parall