[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:59:04AM -0700, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> > >That does save linking of all non-involved libs and
> > >binaries, but it will still compile everything first. At
> > >least it did, when I last tried.
> > Have you tried the gold linker ? Micheal suggested me at XP and I
> > must confess that it makes things way more faster when linking.
> > For the moment wafbuild is only able to use the system linker but it
> > should be very hard to teach him how to use another linker for the
> > one who don't want to use it by default (the gold linker)
> 
> Yes, I did try. But it did not work for me, so I did not
> pursue it further.

Also, if I understand it correctly, the gold linker only
would speed up the linking phase. It would not help with the
problem that we have to compile everything before we even
start linking, right?

Volker

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