Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:30:32AM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote: >> > >> >>[I am surprised you are able to link LyX. After all, swapping during. >> >>linking was the reason I bought my laptop with 512 MB to _link_ LyX, >> >>not to compile it. Are you sure you measure what you think you do?] >> > >> >It is indeed the linking stage which is failing when I compile in >> >debugging symbols. >> > >> >> Part of the solution --- at least on linux --- may be this one, >> suggested by Georg: >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/79155 >> >> It helped me bring the linking time down from about 20 minutes to under >> a minute... > > What versions of binutils is that?
The current one: 2.17. The strange thing is that the binutils people are aware of this bug, and they ship a patch to fix it in the source tarball and require the linux distro packagers to apply it (instead of simply applying the patch themselves): http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111#c10 See here the source of the problem: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2342#c9 Georg
