Re: renaming configure.in to configure.ac

Hi,

On 2020-07-17 10:46:30 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Okay, let's take a look.  Attached is a patch series.

Cool.


> One thing that's annoying is that the release notes claim that configure
> should now be faster, and some of the changes they have made should support
> that, but my (limited) testing doesn't bear that out.  Most notably, the
> newly arisen test
> 
> checking for g++ option to enable C++11 features... none needed
> 
> takes approximately 10 seconds(!) on my machine (for one loop, since "none
> needed"; good luck if you need more than none).

Something got to be wrong here, no? I see that there's a surprisingly
large c++ program embedded for this test, but still, 10s?

It's not even clear why we're seeing this test at all? Is this now
always part of AC_PROG_CXX?

Greetings,

Andres Freund