[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Andreas Schneider]

On Tuesday 21 May 2013 16:07:48 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.

Yes, there should be a way to disable the dependency checking.

make <target>/fast

It also shouldn't require to run the dependency checker every time if no 
wscript file has changed at all.


	-- andreas

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