Re: Removing duplicate occurences from dependency_libs

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 23 May 2001 21:32:53 -0400, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 20 May 2001 15:46:39 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> [....]
> > If you have a "complicated" dependency setup, this will slow down
> linking
> > in a very extreme way (it is more than 5 times slower for me) because I get
> > libraries like -lm or -ldl listed over 30 times in the dependency_libs.
> 
> Hi,
> 	I thought I'd mention that it seems
> to me that the speed hit is in the
> construction of the list of
> dependencies, not during actual
> linking. If you put "set -x" at the
> top of libtool and link something
> like evolution-mail, you'll see the
> list of dependencies grow larger and
> larger till it takes up almost the
> complete screen.

yeah that was not fun last night:

http://primates.ximian.com/~jacob/libtoolsuckage.png

jacob
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