Re: libtool 1.4 -- totally insane resource usage

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:26:09PM -0000, Morten Welinder wrote:
> linking gnumeric using libtool 1.4 currently takes an unreasonable
> time.  It's more or less all spent in libtool, see the report below
> (which does not include subprocesses).  To reproduce, just run
> your favourite libtool link under strace.
> 
> libtool has outgrown being a shell script.  Due to style and lack
> of caching, it hits the same files over and over again.  Hundreds
> of times, in fact.
> 
> Moreover, being a shell script, it starts an absurd number of
> subprocesses -- 1013 to be precise.
> 
> FYI, this is on a Solaris 2.8/Sparc system.  All file systems, but
> /tmp, are NFS.

Unfortunately I am blessed with a blindingly fast machine, so I don;t
notice too much unless things get totally out of hand =(O|  But thanks
for your study, this does indeed highlight just how much libtool is
stretching the abilities of bourne shell.

You will be pleased to know that we plan to have a compiled C version
of libtool for version 1.6.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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