[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Remove site_config and glibc-initial
Burton, Ross
ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Dec 20 19:50:06 UTC 2018
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 18:02, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> As far as zlib/ncurses being the only things that augmented them, when this was
> originally implemented many years ago -- those items were the most commonly used
> by other configure scripts. So adding those defaults when zlib and/or ncurses
> was provided by the system offered a measurable difference in the performance of
> configure.
Do you know what the zlib and ncurses siteconfig files were doing?
Just short-circuiting the AC_CHECK_HEADER call, which is basically
stat(includedir + header.h). I'd call that the definition of
premature optimisation. :)
Ross
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