Re: Avoid la files.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Markus,

Thanks for the report.

* Duft Markus wrote on Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:34:16AM CET:
> 
> I have a quick question about libtool: What can I break, if I fool
> libtool into thinking that there are no .la files for any library on the
> command line?
> 
> The background: We have a bunch of software (about 1000 libraries) which
> are linked (shared) together in one executable. If manually linking it
> takes about 30 seconds. If linking with libtool it takes 40 minutes....
> You see the problem? If I just comment out the double loop in libtool at
> line (approximately) 2517 and set found=no allways, it takes only 36
> seconds.

Which Libtool version?  If branch-1-5, can you try out with HEAD as
well?  Are those 1000 libraries all convenience archives?  Can you post
the link command line and the output that libtool generates from it?
Are those 40 minutes on w32 or some other system as well?

To be able to help I need to be able to reproduce the scalability issue.

Cheers,
Ralf