Re: address@hidden: libjava build times]

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
| Hi Joe, others,
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| * Joe Buck wrote on Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:01:49PM CEST:
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|>We really need something done about this problem, as it interferes
|>with our ability to efficiently develop GCC.
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| How many objects does libjava contain?  Rather 100 or 1000?  Do you
| need relinking because of command line length?
|

libjava has several thousand objects. The bug is about libtool compile and
link times. It takes a little while in libtool to compile several thousand
object files (longer than in the compiler apparently). On many platforms
maximum command line length is exceeded (about 95Kb of command line).

Peter
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