642363 - configure extremely slow on Win 7 + VS2010

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 632344

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I was doing some build benchmarking on my new Macbook Pro (running Windows 7 + VS2010 + current MozillaBuild), and noticed that running configure for the first time takes forever -- 7 to 8 minutes. [Which is a bit crazy, because a full pymake -j12 build takes ~15 minutes.]

This mostly seems to be due to pauses at 3 points, where the console output is at:

checking for atlbase.h...
checking for d3d9.h...
checking for d3d10.h...

I didn't time exactly, but each of the first two seem to get stuck for 1-2 minues, and the d3d10.h one seems to take even longer. The rest of the configure output scrolls by quite rapidly.

Nothing interesting in config.log at these points.

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Can you time with the patch in Bug 632344?

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I was going to suggest that this is probably a dupe of that bug, but that just ought to fix the slowest parts. configure is still slow on windows.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Yeah, I think we can resolve this a dup.

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

So let's resolve as a dupe!