libtool linking libgcj

[Andrew Haley]

Nicholas S. Wourms writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > When linking libgcj, the libtool shell script consumes more than two
 > > minutes of CPU time on my box, a 1200MHz processor.  This is a lot
 > > more time than the link itself takes.
 > > 
 > > I'm coming to the conclusion that this is no longer tolerable.  Many
 > > people don't have boxes anything like as fast as mine.  We really are
 > > going to have to find a better way to do things than this.
 > > 
 > > Andrew.
 > 
 > What about splitting them up into 5 or 6 convenience libraries?  

Okay, but it would be some considerable work, and how much improvemnt
should I expect?  Why would splitting the library help?

Andrew.