Re: Accelerate the 'configure' script

2022-04-27 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
of > learning the internals of `autotools` to get the kind of optimization you > need. The autotools are not designed for this level of performance. Meson and CMake’s Ninja generator are much more likely to achieve that. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) OpenPGP_0xB

Re: Extensions to M4sh

2022-05-04 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
blems, except perhaps IDE integration. And that is far more important to me than being able to support Ultrix or IRIX. A lot of projects have switched from the autotools to something else, often CMake or Meson. Very few have made the reverse switch. If the autotools are to remain competitive, s

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

2022-06-16 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
(such as [[ "$a" =~ [0-9]+ ]] and "${a//a/b}") that do not require forking new processes. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) OpenPGP_0xB288B55FFF9C22C1.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?

2022-11-11 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
n pre-C99 systems. This of course could in theory break some > programs, just as compiling them with C23 can break them. But I don't > see any better option at this point. And besides, what package outside > of a museum still requires C89 and don't work with C99? I just checked

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2023-03-01 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
I incompatibility because gnutls has public APIs > which have time_t parameters > so apps talking to gnutls will expect 32-bit time_t, but gnutls is > processing 64-bit time_t > this is utterly insane Time to do a mass rebuild and mass SONAME bump of everything shipped as 32-bits? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) OpenPGP_0xB288B55FFF9C22C1.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature