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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [1/2] RFC: remove doc/configure
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101120045359.GM2634@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3pqu19gvc.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> b/gdb/ChangeLog:
> 2010-11-19  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* Makefile.in (SUBDIRS): Add doc.
> 	* configure: Rebuild.
> 	* configure.ac: Don't configure in doc.  Create doc/Makefile.
> 
> b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> 2010-11-19  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* Makefile.in (Makefile): Run ../config.status.
> 	(distclean): Update.
> 	* configure: Remove.
> 	* configure.ac: Remove.

I like it :).

configure is often seen as a bottleneck in term of the amount of time
taken to perform builds, especially on Windows where fork/exec just takes
forever. But it's also becoming true on Unix machines where large number
of cores allow all the compilations to be parallelized, so the time to
configure becomes a bigger chunck of the wall-clock time.  That could
be a possible argument in favor of fragmenting the configury.  But in
this case, this is hardly applicable because:
  . The gdb/doc/configure script is really minimal
  . All the checks it makes have already been done by gdb/configure.

-- 
Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-20  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-19 20:51 Tom Tromey
2010-11-20  4:54 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-11-23 14:36   ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-23 14:43     ` Tom Tromey

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