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Re: libtool linking libgcj


Alexandre Oliva writes:
 > On Oct  8, 2003, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Nicholas S. Wourms writes:
 > 
 > >> What about splitting them up into 5 or 6 convenience libraries?  
 > 
 > > Okay, but it would be some considerable work, and how much improvemnt
 > > should I expect?  Why would splitting the library help?
 > 
 > It would avoid piecewise linking and huge command lines, except on
 > systems whose linkers don't support --whole-archive or equivalent, in
 > which libtool would have to extract the archives and then do piecewise
 > linking.

Okay, but how would that help?  Most of the time seems to be in the
libtool shell cript, and I can't see why convenience libraries would
shorten that time.

Andrew.


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