Re: new module 'ldd'

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Note on some systems (GNU/Linux/GCC for example) there is
> > a trade-off to make wrt. fast-install
>
> Being a developer, I'm asking to make the trade-offs in favour of the
> developer's comfort, i.e. optimized for "make", "gdb", and "make check",
> at the expense of a slower "make install" :-)

Your bias is obvious. :-)

> From the non-developer standpoint, the objective is to configure and 
install the package as quickly as possible and libtool has 
historically substantially slowed down this process.  Libtool 2.0 will 
be a big improvement in this regard.  Is it really worthwile to 
penalize the build/install times for many people for the convenience 
of the package developer?  On source-based systems like Gentoo, every 
bit of build efficiency counts.

> > So, no, I don't acknowledge that as bug, but as (necessary) limitation.
>
> glibc systems are the platforms on which most of us are developing. Isn't
> it worth to optimize libtool for these platforms?

Speak for yourself. :-)

Is there any significant use of glibc other than Linux?  If everyone 
was using Linux we would not need libtool at all!

Bob
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