Re: arg list too long

[Robert Boehne]

Mathew Yeates wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply Robert.
> 
> I can't change this parameter on my system (yes its Irix). Even if I could,
> something seems wrong with libtool in that particular libraries are
> being linked in literally hundreds of times. The time required to link
> a single executable is on the order of minutes instead of seconds.
> 
> Can you tell me where to get the alpha release of libtool?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mathew

Sure I can tell you where to get the alpha release:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.4d.tar.gz

I guess (from looking at your email address) that
it isn't rocket science.  ;)

The "linking hundreds of duplicate libraries" is another
feature of Libtool that is only turned on explicitly
in the alpha release.  For some software it is required
(when linking static libs with convoluted dependencies)
so it was added to 1.4.2.  You shouldn't have these problems
if you reconfigure the package to use the alpha Libtool.

HTH,

Robert

Robert Boehne wrote:
> 
> The Libtool team is happy to announce the alpha release
> of Libtool 1.4d.  Tarballs and diffs against the previous
> development release are available at
> 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/
> 
> from NEWS:
> 
> New in 1.4d: 2002-01-07; CVS version 1.4c, Libtool team:
> * Help strings display correctly again.
> * Better error messages when library linking fails.
> * Better error messages from libltdl when loading fails.
> * Better search path management in libltdl with `lt_dlinsertsearchdir'
> call.
> * Support /lib/w32api in recent cygwin releases.
> * Support cross compilation to mingw.
> * Support for .rc files (Windows resource compiler).
> * Improved handling of mingw gcc.
> * Improved handling of $PATH with entries containing spaces.
> * Improved support for linking with gcc on aix4* and aix5*.
> * Improved support for GCC 3.0.
> * Initial support for QNX RTOS, UnixWare 7 and OpenUNIX 8.
> * Bug fixes to the OpenBSD port.
> * Bug fixes.
> 
> Thanks to all those who contributed!
> 
> Robert
> 
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