nice configure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 21:54, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> If you set "buildnicevalue" in ${prefix}/etc/macports/ 
> macports.conf, MacPorts runs the build phase through the "nice"  
> command so that "port" runs at a lower priority and doesn't steal  
> cycles from other processor-intensive tasks you might have running.
>
> Would there be any advantage (or rather any disadvantage) to making  
> the other phases, in particular the configure phase, nice as well?

I can now provide one example in favor of this change: during the  
configure phase, the cmake port compiles a bootstrap version of  
cmake. So it would be nice (a-ha!) if that would also be run through  
nice.

Can anybody suggest a reason why we would not want to make this  
change? If not, I will file an enhancement request.