Re: LDADD and linker options like --whole-archive

2006-04-21 Thread Stefan Puiu
Hi Marc, thanks a lot for your assistance. Now I think I understand the point. It seems like a good solution for the future, however, I don't have the time to try this right now, and in the short term it doesn't seem to bring significant improvements, besides allowing me to get rid of --whole-arc

Re: LDADD and linker options like --whole-archive

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Alff
Hi Stefan Stefan Puiu wrote: Hi Marc, what can I say, on one hand you've made me curious about this option. We're also experiencing long linking times (well, nothing compared to the old project you mentioned), but still, 4 minutes for linking in one modified library is a bit much. :-) L

Re: LDADD and linker options like --whole-archive

2006-04-20 Thread Stefan Puiu
Hi and thanks for replying, On 4/19/06, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > Have you ever considered using Libtool? Its convenience archives would > be a portable alternative to --whole-archive. I'm not that familiar with libtool. And you have to bear in mind that for most

Re: LDADD and linker options like --whole-archive

2006-04-20 Thread Stefan Puiu
Hi Marc, what can I say, on one hand you've made me curious about this option. We're also experiencing long linking times (well, nothing compared to the old project you mentioned), but still, 4 minutes for linking in one modified library is a bit much. Unfortunately, we're not using libtool yet.

Re: LDADD and linker options like --whole-archive

2006-04-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefan, * Stefan Puiu wrote on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:23:04PM CEST: > > I was considering to file this as a bug report, but I thought I'd > first check on the list first. Sorry if this was already brought up > (there's also a bug report which is somewhat similar to my problem - > automake PR

Re: LDADD and linker options like --whole-archive

2006-04-19 Thread Marc Alff
Hi Stefan Stefan Puiu wrote: So, my problem is that for some reason in our projects some libraries *have* to be linked in using a --whole-archive/--no-whole-archive wrap around them. I also use --start-group/--end-group when I have to add a long list of libraries (dozens) and I don't want to w