cmake ftw
CMake also does sequential configuration AFAIK. Is there any work to improve on that somewhere?
Meson and cmake in my experience are both MUCH faster though. It’s much less of an issue with these systems than with autotools.
Just tried reconfiguring LLVM:
27.24s user 8.71s system 99% cpu 36.218 total
ninja libc 268.82s user 26.16s system 3246% cpu 9.086 totalYou mean cargo build
... can cargo build things that aren't rust? If yes, that's really cool. If no, then it's not really in the same problem domain.
No it can't.
It can build a Rust program (build.rs) which builds things that aren't Rust, but that's an entirely different use case (building non-Rust library to use inside of Rust programs).
There's GprBuild (Ada tool) that can build C (not sure about C++). It also has more elaborate configuration structure, but I didn't use it extensively to tell what exactly and how exactly does it do it. In combination with Alire it can also manage dependencies Cargo-style.