Re: parallelized configure

[Eric Blake]

On 01/14/2014 05:56 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've seen there was some discussion about parallelizing configure in
> 2011 which seems to have come up through a talk at fosdem 2011 I've
> missed: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-02/msg00036.html
> 
> Because in most of todays build processes configure is one of the few
> parts which still don't take advantages through multiple processors, I
> want to ask if there has been some progress on that topic?

No one has come forth with patches, and the problem is a lot trickier
than you would think.  I'm not holding my breath for this to happen any
time soon.

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