Bob Friesenhahn: " On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: " > My system has slowed to a dog lately, and I found the culprit: " > libtool. " " What version of libtool is being used?
Is libtool packaged with each package? Then the version is dependent upon whatever is most recently used with each package. I checked the libtool site after posting this and realized libtool is not changing much lately, so hopefully it doesn't matter. $ libtool --version ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.22 (1.1220.2.365 2005/12/18 22:14:06) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ I also checked a host at my ISP that is almost never updated; it indeed has an older version. " What operating system and CPU are being used? Gnu/Linux/Gentoo, P4. " The development version of libtool is considerably faster than " earlier versions. How developmental? Is it in 1.5.22? Can it be used for existing builds or do I have to hand-integrate it for each build? I could answer all these questions myself if I had more time, I know. I was thinking of the best ways to improve libtool speed. Besides converting it all to C (especially since gcc is so much faster now), a "jit" compiler for shell script might have been a good idea if it were not for the fact that shell scripts use expensive external programs for extremely trivial operations (that often aren't even necessary in C, so not even a single CPU cycle for something that in shell land takes millions of cycles and thousands of disk accesses). _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
