"Joel Jacobson" <joel@compiler.org> writes:
> I don't have much experience in this area, but I noted there is
> an AC_CACHE_SAVE feature to speed up rerunning ./configure,
> necessary when it stops with an error due to some missing dependency.
> Is there a good reason why AC_CACHE_SAVE is not used?
Dunno ... it looks like that adds cycles to non-error cases,
which seems like optimizing for the wrong thing.
In any case, right at the moment is probably a bad time to be
working on improvements for configure per se. We can come
back to this if the meson idea crashes and burns.
regards, tom lane
