automake 1.8 performance problems

[Harlan Stenn]

We have a tree with over 1200 Makefile.am's.

Under automake-1.5 these files were processed in about 15 minutes on a
reasonably zippy machine.

Under 1.8 this takes over an hour and a half.

I first mentioned this in:

 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-02/msg00058.html

which received no responses.

What can I do to help find/fix this problem?

Please reply to me as a Cc: as I keep getting unsubscribed to the lists due
to "bounces" and I have been unable to get any response from postmaster@ to
give me any hint as to where these bounces are happening (and my mail logs
do not show them).

H