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Re: Making libstdc++-v3 configure faster
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Making libstdc++-v3 configure faster
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:33:58 -0800 (PST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
Phil Edwards did some work on this. He's the dude in charge of the first
round of configure changes, which did indeed speed things up.
> I think this might have been discussed, but configuring libstdc++-v3
> is very slow for me on Irix6. It spends more time configuring than it
> does bootstrapping and running the testsuite combined. It seems to
? I find this a bit hard to believe, but ok.
> spend a lot of time checking for the various math decl and linkage
> functions. IIRC, someone mentioned that one reason it is slow is that
> is does a whole lot of AC_LANG_SAVE/AC_LANG_RESTORE calls. Indeed,
You might want to search the mailing list archive for the commentary the
first time this went around... it's either on the gcc or libstdc++ lists,
and probably both.
-benjamin