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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, tromey at redhat dot com, Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GCJ <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 13:16:05 -0700
Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:57:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> The savings of creating static libraries would be small if we
> refrained from building non-PIC object files.

But still largely useless.  Who in their right mind is going to
use an 83MB static library when a shared library is available.

> This is exactly what
> --tag disable-static for compilations accomplishes, and we had a patch
> to use that in our tree for some time, but RTH ran into a (probably
> libtool) bug on alpha that led him to revert the change, and then
> didn't provide enough info for anyone else without access to an alpha
> box to figure out what the problem was and then try to fix it :-(

I don't recall the failure mode anymore, nor do I have the patch.  If
you feel like working on --tag disable-static, don't let me stop you.
I'll whine if it breaks again, but not before.

r~

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