Re: libtool VPATH build

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > This annoying situation is compounded by the fact that executing the 
> > 'bootstrap' script takes almost 9 minutes on a dual Pentium IV 2.4 GHz 
> > Xeon system.  I would hate to think about how long it would take on a 
> > slower system.
>
> Hehe, that makes me *so* jealous. It just took me 50 minutes to bootstrap.

I can compile all of GCC in 50 minutes.

Presumably the bootstrap is bootstrapping each and every test 
subdirectory.

I would really like for the VPATH build to work since distclean 
doesn't work and some systems will take much longer than 9 minutes to 
bootstrap.

Bob
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