Re: ports/94826: [patch] Very slow startup for libtool ltdl clients (eg gnucash)

[Noah Misch]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Peter Jeremy wrote on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:27:31AM CET:
> > >Fix:
> >     Ideally, libtool should implement a test case to determine whether
> >     an OS tracks shared library dependencies or now.
> 
> This should definitely be fixed.  However, I really don't know how to
> write such a test so that it also works well in the cross compiling
> case.  So for that we would still need the table.
> 
> But at least in the non-cross-compiling case it would also fix the cases
> where we are not sure whether the system supports it right, or where the
> system needs some patch/upgrade to fix this issue.

A native build could use the test but compare the result with the tabulated
value used for cross-compiling, perhaps asking the user to report discrepancies.