On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 7:32 PM Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca> writes:
>
> > 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.)
>

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
> 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.
>