***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] make is super slow

[Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx>]

* Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:04:34PM CEST:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:47:44AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Where in the Makefile is the z:/path/to/configure set?  VPATH and 
> > targets would be problematic for a Windows style path.
> 
> Yes, VPATH ends up having this,
>   VPATH=z:/path/to/dir
> srcdir, top_srcdir, abs_srcdir and abs_top_srcdir also have this 
> style path in that configuration.
> 
> Here is some interesting information.

> Seems like just cutting down on all those implicit rules helps a lot.
> 
> Does autoconf generate any rules that depends on implicit rules of 
> make? If not, perhaps it should use the -r option by default somehow?

Can't you just use relative paths?  ./configure or ../source/configure
leads to $(srcdir) being relative.  Don't use /absolute/path/configure 
(although it should work, it is generally not preferable).

Cheers,
Ralf

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