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Is it possible to speed up ./configure?

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Mar 15, 20269348 views
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Problem

To compile a software package on a workstation with many CPU cores (say 12), the configuration stage often takes much longer than the actual compilation stage because does the tests one by one, while runs as well as other commands in parallel. I feel that it is a huge waste of resources to have the…

Error Output

cd /dev/shm
rm -rf coreutils-8.9
tar -xzf coreutils-8.9.tar.gz
cd coreutils-8.9
time ./configure
time make -j24

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I recall discussions on the Autoconf mailing list about this issue from about 10 years ago, when most people actually only had one CPU core. But nothing has been done, and I suspect nothing will be done. It would be very hard to set up all the depen…

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