https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112422
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |egallager at gcc dot gnu.org Keywords| |build --- Comment #2 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- A lot of that's just the way that autoconf works. You'd probably have to change the upstream implementation of certain autoconf macros to fix this. Alternatively, you could also try configuring with the "-C" flag to your configure script, which should cause configure results to be cached, but that can be rather fragile, as the config.cache files can stop your build if the slightest things to change. I suppose GCC could try sharing its config.cache files more widely between its various subdirectories, but that would be somewhat risky, given that some of the things that configure checks for could change due to the whole bootstrap process (fixincludes changes the headers available, the new compiler getting built changes which compiler should be found, and what features it has, the new runtime libraries getting built change what functions are available, and so on...)