Re: parallelization of ./configure compiler test processes

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2023-03-29 13:12, Danny McClanahan wrote:
>      - I've been perusing clones of the autoconf and automake codebases and I've been unable to locate the logic that actually executes each test in sequence.

That's because sequencing is implicit. Autoconf generates 'configure', 
which is a shell script, and shell commands are executed in sequence.

Since a test can depend on a previous test's results, parallelizing that 
shell script would be tricky: it'd mean Autoconf would need to know 
which tests depend on which other tests, and this information is only 
partly specified now.

Rather than try to re-engineer Autoconf, have you tried executing the 
'configure' scripts with PaSH? See <https://binpa.sh/>.
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