On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Staffan Gimåker wrote:
On Friday 16 November 2007 14:52:37 Jens Seidel wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:43:49PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
I wrote a set of M4 macros to use the Boost libraries with GNU Autoconf. I did not find any macro that was reliable enough. If
I just want to mention that there exist also http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/macros-by-category.html#BOOST. See also http://randspringer.de/boost/index.html.
Benoit, can you compare your macros with these from the autoconf archives? What is different?
One difference is that, at least for me, the macros from the Autoconf archive are several times faster.
Checks for linked libraries (filesystem, for example) take roughly one minute *each* to perform.
Benoit, is there any way to make the checks a bit faster? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 on modern hardware.
Yes, I know that. But I personally favor reliability over speed, when a choice between both has to be made. Nevertheless, I have good news for you. Someone suggested a trivial improvement that will most likely optimize the macro by several order of magnitude. I'm going to implement this tonight. Stay tuned :) -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory