Mohan Embar wrote: > > Hi Alexandre, > > >I'm not all that surprised your C program is much faster that the > >shell script. For starters, it fails to support all of libtool's > >configure-time options, such as --disable-static, --disable-shared, > >--with-pic, as well as their per-compilation equivalent command-line > >flags. > > I agree. I wasn't even trying to go there.
Long ago and far away, I started a "binary libtool" project. It handled the command line options and basically acted as a shell scriptlett selector (the code selected depending on the operating mode and other conditions), plus it was intended as a framework for moving more interpreted logic into C code. It's been a few years now, though.....