21 Jun
2024
21 Jun
'24
7:43 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 7:32 PM Alexis <flexibeast(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Greg A. Woods" <woods(a)robohack.ca>
writes:
I used it on OpenBSD in the 90s to make ports builds go much faster in the
days before pkgsrc was a going concern. It made a huge difference on my arc
machine that was about P75 speed, the speed of a pentium clocked at
75MHz.... it was an R4000PC running at 100MHz iirc.
Warner
Looking at section 15.8 of that manual, it looks like i could
Indeed there is. Nothing new about it either.
It's been around
for two
decades or more.
TIL - thank you! i've never seen this mentioned before. (Perhaps
because i only use autoconf as an end-user, rather than as a dev.)
specify that `-C` / `--config-cache` be passed to
configure by
default site-wide. So i might do so on my Gentoo system - given
most things on that system are locally compiled, it might be an
interesting stress-test data-point regarding configuration
caching.
Alexis.