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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. |
Date: | Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:52:52 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 |
Achim Gratz wrote:
You'll end up re-implementing years and years of autoconf experience and probably badly.
The "years and years" of experience you're taking about is experience that is under my belt. I have been a reasonably major contributor to Autoconf and to all the Emacs configury code and I know how it works. I would not reimplement it badly.
The idea I have is basically the idea that you proposed in another email: do the obvious parallelizations with the current recipes. However, doing this under the aegis of Autoconf would be a mistake. Autoconf is essentially unmaintained now, and for good reason: it's a dead-end and nobody wants to deal with it. We should be looking at migrating its good stuff (mostly shell+m4 recipes) to a better framework.
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