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Re: libstdc++ configure time


On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:21:52AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Anyway, the only situation in which here documents are so much
> expensive is when there are lots of them within a single top-level
> command.

Oh dear lord.  So this extreme pain is all because of

if test -n "$with_cross_host"; then
else
fi

within which the bulk of libstdc++'s configury is located?!?
It's certainly easy enough to turn that into 100 little if's
if that avoids accumulating so many temp files simultaneously.

> Of course, arranging for autoconf to reduce the usage of here
> documents is certainly going to be a win.  It's certainly not too hard
> to do.  But it's something that should probably be discussed in the
> autoconf mailing list, not here :-)

Yeah, well...  ;-)


r~


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