Speeding up autoconf with caching - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
In the recent Remembering Buildtool post, I described how setting up a cache of configuration checks was an important step in Buildtool’s installation process. The goal was to avoid pointless repetitive work on every build by performing such common checks once. Episode 457 of BSD Now featured my post and Allan Jude wondered how much time would be saved in a bulk build of all FreeBSD packages if we could just do that same kind of caching with GNU Autoconf. And, you know what? It is inde...
Allan Jude Remembering Buildtool Cache Files Setting Site Defaults Automatic System Wide Configuration
Source: jmmv.dev