On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM, David Brown <da...@westcontrol.com> wrote: > And of course if someone figures out how to speed up ./configure with > gcc, the same technique could probably be used on thousands of other > programs.
Is gcc already using a new enough autoconf (2.64+) to take advantage of shell functions? That has been a big speedup in general with configure. I know it's more of an evolutionary rather than revolutionary change, but every bit helps.