>> >> I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks. >> >> Al > > cmake.
Didn't know that, Time to study the build tools, even if I am not a C-coder. > > It really does decrease the amount of time in the configure step - witness > KDE4. > > Then promptly causes a huge rash of other problems elsewhere. Nothing else expected. New features, new troubles. Once I really believed programming would save me time.