Re: [patch] list of input files if max_cmd_len exceeded

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> What would the linker do with special characters in file names?
> Not that it would matter for libtool ATM, but this might change (at
> least the dollar sign would be helpful), so it'd be good to know what
> breaks then.
>
> Also, if we find more linkers with more link script syntax forms, it
> might be good to fold that into a recipe to be put in libtool.m4.
> Something like

I don't think that this is necessary yet. David's patch should, for example, 
work with non-ancient darwin tools, just need to use -filelist <filename>.

> Unnecessary.  Just do
>   $ECHO "X$save_libobjs" | $Xsed | $SP2NL > $output
> instead of looping over every file.  Note that $ECHO may only take one
> argument.  Also, your patch does not remove $output before using, so a
> second link would have a wrong list.

This would seem to be true for the gnu linker script case too. I think the 
time saved by doing this is microscopic compared to the time saved by 
avoiding the ld -r loops though :)

Peter
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