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. (For those of you CCed, Alexandre was responding to my post on java-patches: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q4/msg00609.html ) >Back during the GCC summit, Zack Weinberg suggested an alternative >approach that could speed things up: getting the libtool code to >define additional Makefile macros that would enable someone to inline >the libtool calls into the Makefile itself. >Wanna give it a try? This sounds very tempting, but I'm afraid I'd need to learn a lot more about automake and autoconf before I'm ready for this. (Coming from a Windows background, I already needed to get some brain implants to decipher things like this: >LIBTOOL_END_COMPILE_CC = ; shift 1; \ > { test -d $$dir"/$(libtool_libdir) || \ > $(mkdir_p) "$$dir"/$(libtool_libdir); } && \ > rm -f "$$lofile"T "$$lofile" "$$dir/$$ofile" \ > "$$dir/$(libtool_libdir)/$$ofile" || : ; \ > $(LIBTOOL_COMPILE_CC_PIC) -o "$$dir/$(libtool_libdir)/$$ofile" \ > $${1+"$$@"} && \ > $(LIBTOOL_COMPILE_CC_NONPIC) -o "$$dir/$$ofile" $${1+"$$@"} && \ > { echo pic_object=$(LIBTOOL_PIC_OBJECT); \ > echo non_pic_object=$(LIBTOOL_NONPIC_OBJECT); } > "$$lofile"T && \ > mv "$$lofile"T "$$lofile" :) ) For now, I'm going to continue my experiment and see if I can follow through on it to remove the build-time dependency on libtool of the i686-pc-linux-gnu top-level native build. I don't think my experiment will ever get accepted, but I'm curious to see what the final C program looks like and I figure that it can be used as sort of discussion topic for next steps. (Or not....) -- Mohan http://www.thisiscool.com/ http://www.animalsong.org/ _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
