PPC issues

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 27, 2000, Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2000, Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > But since you mentioned compile times... my pet peeve is libtool
>> > compiling each object twice.  On some archs -fPIC makes no real
>> > difference (e.g. Alpha)
>> 
>> And, on such architectures, libtool compiles each object only once.

> So what you are saying is that libtool is broken?  (It always compiles
> twice on my Alpha.)

Not on mine.  But then, libgcj was using a pretty old libtool last
time I looked, so it might be missing this optimization.

Or are you referring to the -mieee multilib that is built on alpha by
default, and has nothing to do with libtool? 

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