Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command? >> Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's >> going on, I'd ra

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Howard Chu
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command? Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut. Vendors could have introduced `s' switches t

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command? Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut. Vendors could have introduced `s' switches to `ar' with differen

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: | First off: My laptop was broke last week, then some of our department's | hardware was destroyed, so: no mail reading, thus no patch checks, no | 1.5.18 release. Do you need someone else to make the release? Sorry to hear about

Re: backport of duplicate members changes to branch-2-0

2005-05-11 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:02:03PM CEST: Okay to apply? Minor nits below, otherwise fine, I think. (As fine as it is in HEAD currently, which will change soon) Thanks, as always, for finding my stupidities. Will fix before committing. Peter

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:33:52PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > | First off: My laptop was broke last week, then some of our department's > | hardware was destroyed, so: no mail reading, thus no patch checks, no > | 1.5.18 release. > > Do you need someone else

Re: speed up large library linking

2005-05-11 Thread Howard Chu
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 10, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST: - rewrite piecewise old archive linking While reading the GNU ld manpage: | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to |