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Re: Severe performance problem and proposed solution
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Bruce Korb |
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Re: Severe performance problem and proposed solution |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:32:57 -0800 |
Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> It's regularly reported to the GCC list that libstdc++'s configure
> script takes several hours to execute on certain proprietary Unixes,
[[...]]
> It is trivial to write a short C program that [[...]]
> I see only two problems with this approach:
[[...]]
> Thoughts?
Is it past time yet to have a common tool infrastructure
that is *required* to be installed prior to other tools?
It seems to me that uncountable numbers of man-years are
wasted solving inane inconsistencies in wide varieties of
projects when a common tool base could easily solve it.
"autoconf" would likely be a good spawning ground for such
a thing. Much of the needed infrastructure is already
here.....Perhaps a stripped down bash would be an early
member of such a collection?
--
Bruce Korb <first initial + last name at gnu dot org>
AG URL: http://autogen.sourceforge.net