Re: speed up large library linking

2006-05-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:07:02AM CEST: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 21:44 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > Bash-3.1 has `var+=value' (like Zsh), and it's efficient, too. > > :-)) > > > > So let's use it if available. > > OK? > > Yes! Excellent idea! Thank you.

Re: speed up large library linking

2006-05-16 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 21:44 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Peter, everyone, > > Picking up a thread that, incidentally, turns a year old this week, > about complexity reduction patches for link mode with many objects: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-05/msg00158.html >

Re: speed up large library linking

2006-05-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, everyone, Picking up a thread that, incidentally, turns a year old this week, about complexity reduction patches for link mode with many objects: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-05/msg00158.html There were justified concerns back then: * Peter O'Gorman wrote on F

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: - Use of `non-standard' utilities. I have thought about the possibility of replacing the whole `fold' and `split'-using stuff with `xargs' (which _is_ mentioned in GCS), but am not yet sure whether that works. Should I look into it? `join' and `paste' ar

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:29:36PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >How may I convince you? > > I am not sure that you can convince me to like the temporary file usage, > and the use of utilitles like paste and join which are neither mentioned in > the GNU

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-20 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Peter, others, How may I convince you? I am not sure that you can convince me to like the temporary file usage, and the use of utilitles like paste and join which are neither mentioned in the GNU coding standards document or autocnf's portable shell section. The fact th

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:58:05PM CEST: > > Outstanding issues: It also breaks this tests/sh.test test: | # Check for uses of Xsed without corresponding echo "X OK to disable this test? Or should I rewrite it so that it also works if the following line contains an excus

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, others, * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:59:33PM CEST: > * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:33:52PM CEST: > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > | My patches break one assumption held in libtool so far: that --dry-run > > | will cause no file changes. > > >

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command? >> Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's >> going on, I'd ra

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Howard Chu
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command? Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut. Vendors could have introduced `s' switches t

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command? Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut. Vendors could have introduced `s' switches to `ar' with differen

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: | First off: My laptop was broke last week, then some of our department's | hardware was destroyed, so: no mail reading, thus no patch checks, no | 1.5.18 release. Do you need someone else to make the release? Sorry to hear about

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:33:52PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > | First off: My laptop was broke last week, then some of our department's > | hardware was destroyed, so: no mail reading, thus no patch checks, no > | 1.5.18 release. > > Do you need someone else

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Howard Chu
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 10, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST: - rewrite piecewise old archive linking While reading the GNU ld manpage: | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to |

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 10, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST: >> - rewrite piecewise old archive linking > While reading the GNU ld manpage: > | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to > | specify var

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST: - rewrite piecewise old archive linking While reading the GNU ld manpage: | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to | specify variations on an operation's beh

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST: > - rewrite piecewise old archive linking While reading the GNU ld manpage: | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to | specify variations on an operation's behavior: | [...] | S Do not generate an a

speed up large library linking

2005-05-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
First off: My laptop was broke last week, then some of our department's hardware was destroyed, so: no mail reading, thus no patch checks, no 1.5.18 release. Also I'll most likely have little to no net connection for a yet unspecified time to come, and will surely miss some mails. OTOH, that meant