Richard Henderson writes: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:30:13PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > I don't know of a way to tell libtool to not do duplicate compiles. > > You can use -prefer-pic, but at least from looking at the script it > > will still compile twice, albeit with -fPIC both times. > > Incidentally, libtool does not compile things twice when you use > convenience libraries. And the entirity of libgcj is built via > a convenience library these days. > > So we are not, in fact, building everything twice.
You know, I didn't even think to check, and you're absolutely right. OK, so the low-hanging fruit that remains is the libtools script and the linker. In the latter case, it seems that the big link causes severe problems with small memory systems. Andrew.
