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Re: optimizing configure with resident sub-processes?
From: |
Lars J. Aas |
Subject: |
Re: optimizing configure with resident sub-processes? |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:04:30 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:39:33PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
: > I know the above doesn't work, but could it be done in some other,
: > hopefully portable, way? Wouldn't it speed up configure by a lot if
: > we could apply it to the right sub-tasks?
: >
: > I was even thinking the "resident" sub-process could be a shell that
: > looped over a read+switch/case expression to emulate functions, but as
: > I said, I never got the I/O quite working.
:
: <DOS advocacy mode>
: Aaaarghhh! No No No! Aaaarghhh!
:
: Let me reiterate: Aaaarghhh!
No need to get upset - I was only asking if this was possible in a portable
manner.
Lars J