Re: libtool awfully slow on MacOSX?

2001-06-28 Thread F J Franklin

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> > libtool is taking 30-40s to execute on my 366MHz iBook running Mac OS X,
> > compared with approx. 2s on my 166MHz x86 running Linux, and I'm pretty
> > sure it was even quicker still on my iBook when *that* was running Linux,
> > so:
> > 
> > Is it just me & mine, or is there some reason libtool is very slow on
> > Mac OS X?
> 
> It might be due to the fact that OS X' /bin/sh is zsh, while Linux uses
> bash.  There have been reports of zsh having terrible performance with
> the autoconf test suite, so that may be your problem here as well.
> Try setting SHELL to point to bash.

Thanks for the suggestion. Using bash, libtool averages out at about 4s.

Regards, Frank

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Re: mdemo question

2001-06-28 Thread Gary V . Vaughan

On Monday 11 June 2001 11:35 pm, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2001 10:16 am, Robert Collins wrote:
> > Why doesn't foo1 link to libsub.la?
> >
> > -- how is it expected to resolve sub().
>
> It is an oversight.  You are correct that it cannot link properly on
> Windows.
>
> [[snippage]]
>
> I have added this to my patch queue for when the merge is complete -- i.e.
> after next weekend at the earliest =(o|

Well 2 weekends (and a bit) ain't bad considering the size of my patch queue. 
 Perhaps I should rename it to my `patch pool' since I just dip in and 
consume a few now and then.  Queue implies that there is some sense of order 
;-)

Applied to branch-1-4 and HEAD.

Cheers,
Gary.
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