Re: Speeding up libtool

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Max,

* Max Bowsher wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:14:42PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >for your projects.  For best results on Cygwin, you should probably
> >configure (with libtool HEAD) like
> >  CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ash lt_ECHO='printf %s' /bin/ash configure [...]

Oh dear.  This should be
  CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ash lt_ECHO='printf %s\n' /bin/ash configure [...]
instead. 

(While we're at it, I found another mostly harmless bug in libtool
exposed by ash which makes a couple of testsuite tests fail.  Patch
at eleven on the libtool-patches list.)

> >(replace /bin/ash with the path to Cygwin's Almquist shell clone).
> 
> That path would be /bin/sh, so it's possible libtool is using it already.

I'm pretty sure to remember that the shell selection algorithm chooses
bash over /bin/sh.  It does so on other systems.

Regards,
Ralf