Bug 123890

Summary:	redundant recompiles that are repeated over and over time after time; courier-* packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Blu3 <david+gentoo.org>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Blu3 2006-02-23 23:03:32 UTC

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Jaymale courier-imap-4.0.4 # find -name configure
./md5/configure
./imap/configure
./sha1/configure
./tcpd/configure
./rfc1035/configure
./rfc2045/configure
./configure
./libhmac/configure
./liblock/configure
./maildir/configure
./makedat/configure
./soxwrap/configure
./bdbobj/configure
./random128/configure
./gdbmobj/configure
./numlib/configure
./rfc822/configure
./unicode/configure
./waitlib/configure
Jaymale courier-imap-4.0.4 # find -name configure|wc -l
19

It takes about 49 minutes to emerge courier-imap, it takes about 4 minutes to actually compile.  the entire rest of the time is spent running configure 19 times.  i -don't think- $arch changed underneath it from the top level configure.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-24 01:53:50 UTC

Not a Gentoo problem, and not a bug either.

http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#configloop