On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Mark Hammond <mhamm...@skippinet.com.au>wrote:
> [I also see a clobber build spend > 5 minutes in various configure runs, > which frustrates me every time I see it - so I minimize the shell ;] > Yep, and the amazing thing is that we basically don't even need to run most of that junk on Windows (or any platform), because the vast majority of configure output is fixed per platform--especially on Windows. Example of wasted time: checking whether the C++ compiler can compile by compiling a source file that we don't even need. How about we assume the C++ compiler can compile a program and then fail when we compile a real source file if/when our assumption is wrong? On Mac and Linux, configure is so fast that it might not be worth optimizing it. But, on Windows it is excruciatingly slow and it is worth short-circuiting as much of it as we can. Cheers, Brian > > Mark > > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > -- Mozilla Networking/Crypto/Security (Necko/NSS/PSM) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
