From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baruch Siach Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:05:39 +0300 Subject: [Buildroot] autoconf caching In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140605170539.GP4193@tarshish> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Dallas, On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:34:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > Hi All - I have seen posts on this subject before. It looks like things > flamed out. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2012-11/msg00022.html > > I'm getting killed by autoconf. My builds take 1.5 hours even with ccache > turned on. Most of the cores in my very impressive build machine are > sitting on their !#@ while autoconf is running. Most of my packages rely > on autotools and it seems that most of the time spent is running configure > scripts. > > Can anyone offer some advice on how to speed things up with autoconf? Or > is it a lost cause? You may try to enable parallel build which is disabled by default. Look for '.NOTPARALLEL:' in the top level Makefile. Make sure to read the comment above it. Hope this helps. baruch -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch at tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -