Re: [PATCH 7/7] Prefer $NM @file over calculating the cmd line length.

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/8/2010 4:54 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hmmm, but @file makes it harder than necessary to debug on MSYS, since
> the automatic command line conversion make the address@hidden branch work
> there. And the @file branch is probably bad for performance on MSYS too,

FYI, the patch that adds "@/looks/like/a/unix/path" to the list of stuff
that MSYS automatically converts to C:/msys-inst-root/dos/format/ was
accepted and committed a yesterday. So it looks like MSYS-1.0.16 will
include this feature...but we don't really have a schedule for when that
will be released.

> since the manual forking conversion is so much slower than the
> automatic command line conversion. I think some kind of lazy conversion
> strategy -- like the one in 'compile' -- would be a worthwhile
> optimization.

So, right now on MSYS you still manually convert @unix-path to
@dos-format, right?   If so, once MSYS-1.0.16 is released should libtool
just assume that support is present and require msys-latest, or would an
additional feature test be required?

--
Chuck