From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21464 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2010 04:54:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 21447 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Nov 2010 04:54:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:54:05 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC732BAB5A; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:54:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GqLoR5GapENO; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:54:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AA62BAB38; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:54:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91E761457E0; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:53:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:54:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [1/2] RFC: remove doc/configure Message-ID: <20101120045359.GM2634@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00285.txt.bz2 > b/gdb/ChangeLog: > 2010-11-19 Tom Tromey > > * 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 > > * 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