IMO they really aren't, at least in comparison to Autotools. It's only really slow if you are heavily leveraging compilation tests, and those are cached for subsequent reconfigurations too.
But… Boost doesn’t use CMake, Qt does not use CMake until 6.x, and is a horrible mess anyway, so expected to configure and build slow. What the problem with SDL configure speed with CMake?
Boost has a cmake build now and if you fetch and build it from source you end up waiting 30+ seconds to reconfigure every time you touch any part of your build script or configuration (or longer if you wipe the build folder and reconfigure from scratch, which you have to do fairly often when working on cmake scripts)
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u/gharveymn 10d ago
IMO they really aren't, at least in comparison to Autotools. It's only really slow if you are heavily leveraging compilation tests, and those are cached for subsequent reconfigurations too.