Re: groan: installation

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 10:33  PM, 
nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk wrote:

> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Nic> Build takes soooo long. Pity the poor hacker   /8-<
> >
> > Doing the .java -> .class all at once may help.
> > This requires either bug fixing in gcj or workarounds in libgcj.
> > If it provides a build speedup, I'd be in favor of adding the
> > workarounds; they're already in Classpath anyway.
> > I don't have time to look at this though.  If you write a patch and do
> > the time tests, I'll read and approve it though :-)
> What seems to take the time (at least on my machine) is the _install_
> of all the header files and the building of the eventual .so libs.
One thing I do is to hack the top level configure to use /bin/install 
instead of install.sh. This makes the header installation much faster.

Building a package at a time into a .o rather than one source file at a 
time would probably speed up the linking a lot. Improving gcj to 
generate smaller object files would certainly help. I think the main 
culprit here is that there is a lot of redundant debug information.

regards

B ryce.