Hi, > Consider also that older versions of Libtool (IIRC 1.4.2) used to > keep track of duplicate dependency libs by default. That means there > could be a list of libs longer than the rest of the link line, and > this was often the case. The link performance in one of my projects > went from Inf/NaN to 10 minutes with the duplicates removed. ;) I remember that, yes :-) I'm using 1.4.3 and 1.5 currently, where this doesn't happen.
> The other thing to consider is that it is often a very good idea to > make sure every symbol in your library is resolved so it is more > portable (by forcing a link error for unresolved symbols). This > isn't possible without bringing along the dependencies even > when building shared objects (under Solaris for instance). Agree we do, but generic the problem is ;-) In other words, apart from fixing my own projects (where I already do some preprocessing to keep link times reasonable) I would like to find a way to fix it in libtool, so compiling other (gnome) stuff doesn't suck so badly. Iñaki _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
