From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:55:43 +0300 Message-ID: <8336mnmiow.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190228205955.GD4686@ACM> <20190410162203.GA4009@ACM> <9809d5ce-c1c4-48e9-6dac-489431b34067@cs.ucla.edu> <671ba8dd-894b-5698-d162-8901b1098b9a@cs.ucla.edu> <83k1g04al8.fsf@gnu.org> <93b861b3-41d2-e590-d4b8-46a4bb64bfe8@cs.ucla.edu> <20190412133727.GC4588@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="193616"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 15:56:43 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hEwfb-000oIr-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:56:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37702 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEwfZ-000872-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEwex-00083W-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEwew-0004sj-I3; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3327 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hEweu-0005r6-OW; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:56:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190412133727.GC4588@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:37:27 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235343 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:37:27 +0000 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > The hero will be the hacker who contributes a -j parameter to configure > in the autoconf project. Gentoo users would be grateful for ever. > > As a stopgap, would it perhaps be possible to feed `configure''s tests > through GNU Parallel, somehow? I see `configure' being fed through a > sed or AWK script to make it do this. Perhaps. Why cannot we break configure.ac into several orthogonal parts, and then run them in parallel?