configure speedup proposal: add --assume-c99 and --assume-posix2008 flags

2014-03-22 Thread John Spencer
there are many configure scripts out there that still check for things that are standard since at least 10 years, and doing this extensively and over and over (people building software themselves usually build more than one package) consumes a lot of time (especially due to the non-parallel nat

configure speedup proposal: add --assume-c99 and --assume-posix2008 flags

2014-03-22 Thread John Spencer
there are many configure scripts out there that still check for things that are standard since at least 10 years, and doing this extensively and over and over (people building software themselves usually build more than one package) consumes a lot of time (especially due to the non-parallel nat