Vincent Torri <[email protected]> writes: > the build system of gettext is using the sub-configure feature of > autoconf, hence the configuration time takes a lot of time (especially > same features are checked several times). > > I would like to know if there is some work to port that build system > to only one configure.ac script, and even eventually to a non > recursive build ?
I'd say no. From maintainer's point of view, this clear separation of runtime/tools packages helps much, compared to a single large configure.ac. If the configuration time really matters, you could try --cache-file option of the configure script. See (info "(autoconf) Cache Files"): When `configure' calls `configure' scripts in subdirectories, it uses the `--cache-file' argument so that they share the same cache. Regards, -- Daiki Ueno
