Re: libtool optimization

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Michel Briand wrote:
> I've noted that libtool is very very slow.

Are you using libtool 2.2.6 or are you using an antique version? 
Libtool versions prior to 2.2 were indeed very slow.

> By default it produces shell snippets with "/bin/bash".

Current libtool still uses the shell that Autoconf chooses for it. 
However, if you have a faster shell which actually works (e.g. dash) 
you can specify it via the CONFIG_SHELL environment variable prior to 
running the configure script.

> I tried this in configure.ac: is this the good way ?
>
> export SHELL=/bin/sh

That would be a bad way since perhaps '/bin/sh' is not capable of 
running the configure script at all.

Bob
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