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.