On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Michel Briand wrote:
Honestly I wanted to do two optimizations. Firstly, I've tested /bin/dash and seen that it's much faster than /bin/bash on my normal sized project. ->> is it possible to choose the shell in autogen ? That way users do not have to bother to call configure like this ?
If you did that then the configure script would likely only work on your system. If it only runs on your system, what's the point?
Secondly, I wanted to optimize the way gcc is called ? Why does libtool need to create a shell snippet for all source files ? A Makefile that simply calls gcc for each source file is much much faster ;))))
Libtool is for portably creating libraries. If you only plan to create libraries that work on your own computer, then you can hard-code everything in a Makefile and skip using libtool.
Regardless, libtool 2.2 and latter has been shown to have minimal impact on build times.
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