Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, Scott, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:08:52PM CEST: > On Mon, 16 May 2005, Scott Kruger wrote: > > > >As someone who is just getting started in the whole GNU autotools world, > >I think "keeping libtool outside of automake" is one of the things that > >make it difficult

Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:44:40AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius did write: >> IIRC, the argument had been that the libtool folks had wanted to "keep >> libtool outside of automake" because libtool is/had been supposed to be >> a tool independent of the make infr

Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Scott Kruger wrote: As someone who is just getting started in the whole GNU autotools world, I think "keeping libtool outside of automake" is one of the things that make it difficult to learn GNU autotools. I like Ralf Wildenhues's option #3 very much. Besides the fact that no

Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-17 Thread Scott Kruger
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:44:40AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius did write: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > [ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ] > > > 3) Fold compile mode completely into Automake snippets/the resulting > > Makefile. I wonder why this has

Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-17 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: | Hi Ralf, | | * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:44:40AM CEST: | |>On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: |> |>>[ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ] |> |>>3) Fold compile mode c

Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ralf, * Ralf Corsepius wrote on Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:44:40AM CEST: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > [ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ] > > > 3) Fold compile mode completely into Automake snippets/the resulting > > Makefile. I wonder why th

Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ] > 3) Fold compile mode completely into Automake snippets/the resulting > Makefile. I wonder why this has not been done before, at least for the > default rules (per-target rules coul

ideas for speeding up compile mode

2005-05-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ] Have been thinking a little about speeding up compile mode. Unfortunately, there is no trivial trick like for link mode when what you do is compile thousands of tiny translation units -- the large constant involved with slow shell script exec