Re: speed up large library linking

[Howard Chu]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command?

> Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's
> going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut.  Vendors could have
> introduced `s' switches to `ar' with different meanings before it was
> (sort-of?) standardized.

Surely that would cause other problems for libtool as well as most other 
software packages out there. I suspect that any system released in the 
past 20 years probably works fine, otherwise you'd have seen more 
problems related to ar.

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