Stefan Teleman wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > "Laszlo (Laca) Peter" wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 05:20 +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] > There are more pressing problems with libtool which probably need to > be addressed, before we start worrying about libtool performance.
Performance is the item where the FOX people are screaming loudest right now... > For > one, i doubt anyone expects it to be a showcase of HPC. Being less of > a pain to deal with would be a small step for libtool, and a giant > leap for humanity. > > For starters, there are several Sun Studio flags in the > -W<something>,<something> [ examples: -Wc,<something> or > -Wu,<something>, etc ] category. These flags aren't used very often, > but they are very useful. > > libtool silently removes some of these flags (but not all), because it > does not like them. Ideally, it should allow us to pass any compiler > flags verbatim. > > Second, there should be a libtool option to pass -norunpath when > linking a shared object or an executable. Currently this is not > possible without additional acrobatics. 1. Report these issues to upstream 2. Upgrade libtool 3. Convince our manager to allocate time that I can do the upgrade > These two enhancements would be more useful to a wider audience than > switching libtool shells for a 5% speed improvement. Grumble... ... do you really think I would fight for a 5% improvemnt ? So far it's a ~~18min improvement in build time on my box and I didn't even use more builtins or "shcomp" yet... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
