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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?


Richard Henderson writes:
 > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:30:13PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
 > > I don't know of a way to tell libtool to not do duplicate compiles.
 > > You can use -prefer-pic, but at least from looking at the script it
 > > will still compile twice, albeit with -fPIC both times.
 > 
 > Incidentally, libtool does not compile things twice when you use
 > convenience libraries.  And the entirity of libgcj is built via
 > a convenience library these days.
 > 
 > So we are not, in fact, building everything twice.

You know, I didn't even think to check, and you're absolutely right.

OK, so the low-hanging fruit that remains is the libtools script and
the linker.  In the latter case, it seems that the big link causes
severe problems with small memory systems.

Andrew.


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