[PATCH] Backport input file to GCC libtool
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Thu May 5 00:16:00 GMT 2005
David Edelsohn wrote:
> The appended patch backports functionality from CVS libtool to
> invoke the linker with a list of object files if the command line is too
> long. This is necessary for libgfortran to link reliably on AIX and will
> speed up linking libjava if there are too many object file to fit on the
> command line.
>
> This patch has been bootstrapped successfully on
> powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0 and powerpc64-linux. This also has been tested
> with max_cmd_len artificially set to a small value to force the
> functionality to be tested.
>
> Okay for mainline and 4.0?
Yes, assuming no objections from Alexandre within a day or so.
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