On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:50:41PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Noah Misch wrote: > > > >`make dist' now works fine on a system with no Fortran. The list of files > >in > >the distribution has not changed.
> Normally I would be more in favor of narrowing the scope of management > to as close to the file as possible. However, an order of magnitude > speed improvement sounds great to me and the tests directories have > certainly been burdensome. Presumably there is a substantial speed > improvement while bootstrapping and configuring the project as well. The subdirectory configures would still exist; bootstrap and test would take the same amount of time. `make dist' will no longer need to configure the test directories, so that part does improve.
