| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joel Jacobson" <joel(at)compiler(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PSA: Autoconf has risen from the dead |
| Date: | 2022-01-23 18:35:22 |
| Message-ID: | 1714995.1642962922@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joel Jacobson" <joel(at)compiler(dot)org> writes:
> I don't have much experience in this area, but I noted there is
> an AC_CACHE_SAVE feature to speed up rerunning ./configure,
> necessary when it stops with an error due to some missing dependency.
> Is there a good reason why AC_CACHE_SAVE is not used?
Dunno ... it looks like that adds cycles to non-error cases,
which seems like optimizing for the wrong thing.
In any case, right at the moment is probably a bad time to be
working on improvements for configure per se. We can come
back to this if the meson idea crashes and burns.
regards, tom lane
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