groan: installation

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:

Adam> IMHO GCJ should be using ant for build management.

Ant isn't going to help our situation.  And, anyway, I dislike ant
quite a bit.

Adam> Is there a way to tell ar "copy in only .o's which have a
Adam> modification date after the date on the .a"?

See the `u' flag in (binutils) ar.

Is ar the speed-limiting step?  Anyone want to try to profile the
build and see how long each step takes?  I suspect batching
compilations will help us most.

Tom