Re: speed up large library linking

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:58:01PM CEST:
> > - rewrite piecewise old archive linking
>
> While reading the GNU ld manpage:
> | A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter,  to
> | specify variations on an operation's behavior:
> | [...]
> | S   Do not generate an archive symbol table.  This can speed up  build-
> |     ing  a  large  library in several steps.  The resulting archive can
> |     not be used with the linker.  In order to build a symbol table, you
> |     must  omit  the S modifier on the last execution of ar, or you must
> |     run ranlib on the archive.
>
> Is there any reason we don't use this?  Should I hack up a patch for it?

Using this feature does sound useful.

Bob
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