Re: distchecking without FC?

[Noah Misch]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:50:41PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Noah Misch wrote:
> >
> >`make dist' now works fine on a system with no Fortran.  The list of files 
> >in
> >the distribution has not changed.

> Normally I would be more in favor of narrowing the scope of management 
> to as close to the file as possible.  However, an order of magnitude 
> speed improvement sounds great to me and the tests directories have 
> certainly been burdensome.  Presumably there is a substantial speed 
> improvement while bootstrapping and configuring the project as well.

The subdirectory configures would still exist; bootstrap and test would take the
same amount of time.  `make dist' will no longer need to configure the test
directories, so that part does improve.