From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <516E17FE.8050900@cs.ucla.edu> <83ppxt2iuc.fsf@gnu.org> <516EEE68.90505@cs.ucla.edu> <0ehe9ezol.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <516F11CC.2080301@cs.ucla.edu> <516F43D3.3090008@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366262986 4463 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2013 05:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 18 07:29:50 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UShPp-0001Fe-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:29:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UShPp-0001YU-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UShPm-0001YL-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UShPl-0002pd-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UShPl-0002pP-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UShPj-0001PI-25; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:43 -0400 X-Spook: diwn Qaddafi Abu Ghraib Centro oil Hamas Serbian HAMASMOIS X-Ran: P/P:i|5\>_m;u]dgHZR(wwP^5RQyI]ED;gr+uwW4tpSoD+qWMy0,(K[LFw)u57O5/=5DMz X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158997 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > Doesn't add much: 0.9 seconds in one test run, and that's probably at > the noise level. But regardless of speed it's better to avoid the > complexity of Autoconf and stick to straightforward C code when it's > easy to do so, as it is here. It would be surprising if it weren't noise, since a few more if/elses here and there shouldn't make any measurable difference. I don't think Eli should feel any obligation to redo his work in a different style to the vast majority of the existing auto-configuration stuff before installing it. If he or anyone else wants to, by all means let's try and speed up configure as an independent project though.