Re: [PATCH] Removal of obsolete AmigaOS support

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > The major problem right now in running libtool 1.5 plus amigaos patches
> > from CVS on m68k based machines (amigaos, or not) is the very inefficent
> > check for maximum allowed variable length, that can take up to an hour,
> > or more.
>
> Why not `export lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=16384', or some other value you know
> works before running configure?  Or put it in the system-wide cache...

At one point in time, someone (probably Dalibor Topic) suggested
implementing an alternative algorithm which requires fewer iterations.
I think it was also suggested that the starting point of the algorithm
be set to just below the known worst-case system so it doesn't take
long to find the limit.

Clearly there are more sophisticated algorithms that will find the
limit faster.

Unfortunately, a patch was never submitted ...

Bob
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