Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: May 27, 2007, 07:21 UTC
Message-ID: <4659318B.20801@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <46592CFE.40303@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

>> On systems like Cygwin the fork+exec overheads are very high
> A well written configure script is able to detect presence
> of a linkable libcurl. 
>

IMO the reasons configure is so unwieldy, at least as it's set up in most open source projects, are that a) it spends 95% of its time checking for things that basically never vary (yes, I have stdlib.h, thank you) and that b) it doesn't remember the results from previous runs on the same host (I'm just changing the install path; my ints won't have stopped being 32 bits as a result.) I wonder if we could satisfy most people with a configure script -- maybe not based on autoconf -- that is limited in scope to just the things that are currently tweakable in the git Makefile.

If configure ran only, say, 10-15 tests, I bet the fork+exec overhead on Cygwin would be perfectly tolerable.

-Steve