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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Annoyingly cautious make rules
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:23:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDA855D.9050700@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwrae7lxy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On 12/02/11 12:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > Another part of the problem is that even if I use "configure -C",
>> > "make" sometimes invokes "configure" without -C, which is
>> > reeeeally slow.
> That needs fixing, then.

OK, I did that as follows in bzr 106594.

Propagate configure flags to sub-configures.
* Makefile.in (cache_file, MAINTAINER_MODE_FLAG, CONFIGUREFLAGS):
New macros.
(config.status, bootstrap): Use them to propagate configure flags
to sub-configures.
* configure.in (cache_file): AC_SUBST this, for Makefile.in.
=== modified file 'Makefile.in'
--- Makefile.in	2011-11-22 01:56:49 +0000
+++ Makefile.in	2011-12-03 20:17:56 +0000
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@

 # ==================== Things `configure' Might Edit ====================

+MAINTAINER_MODE_FLAG = --disable-maintainer-mode
+@MAINT@MAINTAINER_MODE_FLAG = --enable-maintainer-mode
+cache_file = @cache_file@
+CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --cache-file=$(cache_file) $(MAINTAINER_MODE_FLAG)
+
 CC=@CC@
 CFLAGS=@CFLAGS@
 LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@
@@ -404,7 +409,7 @@
 	if [ -x ./config.status ]; then	\
 	    ./config.status --recheck;	\
 	else				\
-	    ./configure;		\
+	    ./configure $(CONFIGURE_FLAGS); \
 	fi

 AUTOCONF_INPUTS = @MAINT@ $(srcdir)/configure.in $(srcdir)/aclocal.m4
@@ -936,7 +941,7 @@
 	if [ -x ./config.status ]; then           \
 	    ./config.status;                      \
 	else                                      \
-	    ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode; \
+	    ./configure $(CONFIGURE_FLAGS);       \
 	fi
 	$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) info all


=== modified file 'configure.in'
--- configure.in	2011-11-30 16:23:05 +0000
+++ configure.in	2011-12-03 20:17:56 +0000
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@
 dnl http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg01844.html
 OPTION_DEFAULT_ON([makeinfo],[don't require makeinfo for building manuals])

+## Makefile.in needs the cache file name.
+AC_SUBST(cache_file)
+
 ## This is an option because I do not know if all info/man support
 ## compressed files, nor how to test if they do so.
 OPTION_DEFAULT_ON([compress-info],[don't compress the installed Info pages])




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-03 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 21:48 Annoyingly cautious make rules Richard Stallman
2011-11-30 22:00 ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-01 21:54   ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-02  1:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-02 10:00     ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-01  3:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-01  8:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-02 12:05   ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-02 12:11     ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-02 12:13     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-02 14:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-02 15:05         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-02 15:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-03  9:23           ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-02 16:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-02 16:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-02 18:24           ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-02 18:39             ` Glenn Morris
2011-12-02 20:21               ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-02 20:36             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-02 21:29               ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-02 23:26                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-03  0:34                 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-03  2:52                   ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-03  3:42                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-03  3:55                       ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-03  5:48                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-03  6:35                           ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-03  8:49                     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-03 20:15                       ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-03 20:29                         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-03 20:42                         ` Glenn Morris
2011-12-04 15:04                           ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-04 16:55                             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-04 18:57                               ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-05  2:53                                 ` Glenn Morris
2011-12-03  6:45                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-03 20:23               ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-12-03  4:52             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-12-03 20:34               ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-03  9:23           ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-03  4:26         ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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