Re: ensure $MV is set before each use [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-30]

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:32:07PM CEST:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> >BTW, we eventually need to talk about m4 execution time, too.
> >bootstrapping HEAD is much slower than branch-2-0, which in turn is much
> >slower than branch-1-5.  Does m4 scale exponentially in the maximal
> >encountered macro depth?  How can I find this out, and could something
> >be done about it?  Note I have shyed away from m4 as much as I could
> >until now, so a documentation hint should suffice for a start.
> 
> Maybe we should switch from m4 to GUILE.  GUILE can do just about 
> anything so it could pretend to be m4.

And in what way would that address my point?  Can it do anything
*quickly*?  Note that I have been completely ignorant of guile so far.

Note also that I have not criticized m4, I have merely asked for
information.

Regards,
Ralf