On May 10, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST: >> - rewrite piecewise old archive linking
> While reading the GNU ld manpage: > | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to > | specify variations on an operation's behavior: > | [...] > | S Do not generate an archive symbol table. This can speed up build- > | ing a large library in several steps. The resulting archive can > | not be used with the linker. In order to build a symbol table, you > | must omit the S modifier on the last execution of ar, or you must > | run ranlib on the archive. > Is there any reason we don't use this? Should I hack up a patch for it? I don't think so, and Yes, please!, respectively :-) While at that, how about losing ranlib when ar already does its job? Ian Lance Taylor suggested we could test for this by creating an archive with ar, no ranlib, and trying to link an executable that pulls symbols from the archive. We should probably make sure the symbol we bring in form the archive isn't available if the archive isn't linked in (e.g., from libc), just to be paranoid. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
