On Thursday 01 May 2008, reader@(protected):
> In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current
> 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff.
>
> Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far
> makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those
> answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each line could be
> dispensed with for most of them. Probably would need more than 2-3
> compiles to have all but rare ones answered.
>
> Some items really check a lot of things.
>
> I think it would be a major time saver when discussing huge numbers
> of compiles.

You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs???

Har har.
You must be new here.

:-)

That problem has been discussed about 486,212 times and solved about 0
times.


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