Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes: > * Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:58:14AM CET: >> > The build times are interesting: >> > >> > gnulib-tool: 324 minutes >> > ./configure: 36 minutes >> > make check: 34 minutes > >> The build times are now: >> >> gnulib-tool: 418 minutes >> ./configure: 43 minutes >> make check: 38 minutes >> >> Haven't we applied some of Ralf's speedup patches? Any ideas why it is >> now slower? > > Two of my patches have not been applied: > - gnulib-tool: avoid forks with func_get_* functions. > - Efficient license compatibility checks with --test/--create-testdir. > > Without the first one, all other caching patches are useless because the > caching then only happens in subshells and can thus never be reused.
Ok, thanks for explaining, I just wanted to make sure that we didn't intend for gnulib-tool to be much faster than before. /Simon
