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Re: [MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT]: Replace some libtool functionalitywith handcoded C
- From: Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>
- To: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, libtool at gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:09:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: [MAD SCIENCE EXPERIMENT]: Replace some libtool functionalitywith handcoded C
- References: <HGOKRNLG1WSQHFJH83UTKGKI05QOA9MG.3fcf3216@p733>
- Reply-to: bkorb at veritas dot com
Mohan Embar wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> >I'm not all that surprised your C program is much faster that the
> >shell script. For starters, it fails to support all of libtool's
> >configure-time options, such as --disable-static, --disable-shared,
> >--with-pic, as well as their per-compilation equivalent command-line
> >flags.
>
> I agree. I wasn't even trying to go there.
Long ago and far away, I started a "binary libtool" project.
It handled the command line options and basically acted as a
shell scriptlett selector (the code selected depending on the
operating mode and other conditions), plus it was intended as
a framework for moving more interpreted logic into C code.
It's been a few years now, though.....