Builds currently spend significant time running configure scripts, many of which have considerable overlap in terms of the features they check for. A combination of config.site to pre-fill some values and config.cache to share the results of individual checks could potentially reduce the time these builds spend re-computing known quantities.
Builds currently spend significant time running configure scripts, many of which have considerable overlap in terms of the features they check for. A combination of
config.site
to pre-fill some values andconfig.cache
to share the results of individual checks could potentially reduce the time these builds spend re-computing known quantities.