----Original Message---- >From: Peter O'Gorman >Sent: 04 May 2005 00:52
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave Korn wrote: >> Ok, here's a really *nasty* kludge: libtool is basically a big script >> that generates command lines for the other tools based on passed-in args >> and local configure settings, yeh? And a lot of the time it's used for >> lots and lots and lots of library files one after another in exactly the >> same way, yes? > > <http://libtool-cache.sourceforge.net/> > " Caching compile commands gives nice speedups even the first run as the source and target file name are replaced by a generic placeholder before caching (the 2.6 branch of GTK+ requires only 9 different compile commands), ... " Cool! I'll give it a try and see if I can get some figures! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....