speedup collect2 (by not using it)

[Matt Austern]

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:27 PM, John David Anglin wrote:

>> In message <200305222040.QAA31262@makai.watson.ibm.com>, David 
>> Edelsohn writes:
>>>>>>>> Mike Stump writes:
>>>
>>>> does collect2 ever do anything interesting when
>>>> USE_COLLECT2 isn't defined and -frepo isn't given?  Problem areas 
>>>> might
>>>> be IBM (COLLECT_EXPORT_LIST).  If aix is a problem, we can always do
>>>> collect2 when COLLECT_EXPORT_LIST is defined.
>>>
>>>      The GCC configuration for AIX always define use_collect2=yes
>>> because it needs collect2 to build the list of constructors.
>> Similarly for HPUX.
>
> This isn't true anymore under hpux11.  On the 64-bit port, we
> don't use collect2.  On the 32-bit port, we no longer use chatr.

But in any case, isn't this a bit tangential to the question Mike
asked?  He asked what happens on systems where USE_COLLECT2
*isn't* defined, and you're talking about systems where it is (or at 
least
was) defined.

			--Matt