[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RFE: option to avoid autoreconf recursion
From: |
Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
RFE: option to avoid autoreconf recursion |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:30:46 +0100 |
User-agent: |
KMail/1.5 |
Hi,
For gnulib-tool, it would be useful if 'autoreconf' had an option
--no-recurse or --no-recursion or --no-recursive
that would avoid recursive self-invocations of autoreconf.
The use case is: gnulib-tool creates many directories with each a
Makefile.am and configure.ac and configure file, and on top of that
an extra Makefile.am and configure.ac and configure file. When the
subdirectories are created, autoreconf is already executed on such a
subdirectory. Therefore recursion is not needed.
Currently, on a slow machine, "gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir" takes
ca. 4 hours of CPU time when using aclocal/autoconf/automake for the top
level, and ca. 7-8 hours when using autoreconf. autoreconf is just redoing
useless recomputations.
Bruno
- RFE: option to avoid autoreconf recursion,
Bruno Haible <=