Re: Bug in the 'mex' garbage collector (octave 2.9.10)

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Apr-2007, I wrote:

| Yes, building the shared libraries takes much too long.  I don't know
| what is causing that step to be so slow, but if anyone has any clues,
| please share them.

OK, I did some googling and experimenting and these long link times
seem to be a known problem with the binutils linker when building
binaries that contain large sets of debugging symbols.  The good news
is that the problem seems to be fixed in the current binutils
development sources.  I built binutils from CVS and installed the
resulting ld in /usr/local/bin on my system and the link time for
liboctave.so and liboctinterp.so went from several minutes each to a
few seconds.

Please note that I'm not recommending this solution for everyone.

jwe