From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: request to re-order configure Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:59:24 +0100 Message-ID: <8761f2kb9f.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414605605 2547 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 18:00:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:00:05 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 18:59:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@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 1XjXXB-0003b6-C9 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:59:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXXB-0005lG-3F for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXWv-0005h2-Pl for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXWn-0000Vt-2o for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXWm-0000VZ-Sy for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXWh-0003Ia-SD for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:59:19 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:59:19 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:59:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 8 Brumaire an 223 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.130011 (Ma Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a/JTABFz3e06vgvyqsaUNs0gvGs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11608 Archived-At: Mike Bushroe skribis: > But ignoring my fumbling around in the dark my original request was to > re-consider the order of tests made once the configure file it built. > Currently many of the long and arduous dependency installs are not > checked until near the end, about 10 minutes down the line on my > laptop. This means that for every one of the listed major dependencies > that I didn't install, didn't get to correctly install, or got a > version too far back, it would add another 10 minute ./configure run > just to tell me what major package to work on loading next. Then > another 10 minute run to go one line further to report the next > missing piece. So on top of the time it took to install the next piece > I was adding the 10 minute run of guile's configure for each attempt. I think you should use configure’s caching mechanism: just run ./configure -C and then, when it fails, it already has a cache of most of what it tested already, so the next run will quickly resume close to where it stopped. HTH, Ludo’.