Re: make libtool faster v3

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> We provide two implementations of each function, a Bourne shell com-
> pliant one and an XSI compliant one (again, the latter without forks).
> Since most systems either have a suitable shell already or are not used
> primarily for application development anyway, this should benefit the
> bulk of libtool users while /not/ compromising portability.

Can the shells capabilities not be checked in configure (in libtool.m4) and 
the appropriate basename and dirname functions put in the generated libtool 
script from config.status? Even chosing which version of dirname/basename to 
call during configure is better than doing it every time libtool is called.

Peter
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