[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Remove site_config and glibc-initial

[Burton, Ross]

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