Subject: Re: bug#9106: 24.0.50; ./configure causes massive recompilation

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:14:17 +0300

> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:00:50 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked], 
>  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> [...] if the benefit is large enough relative to the cost (something
> that's not clear to me).

People complain about bzr operations that take 15 seconds where git
takes 3, so I'm sure recovering 3 minutes of needless compilation will
be quite a win, at a cost of a couple of additional recipes in the
top-level Makefile.in.