Re: libtool performance status

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:18:34PM CEST:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>
>> Can you please check whether
>>  libtool --tag=CXX --config
>>
>> is identical for each of the builds you timed?
>
> It is really not as easy as you presume for me to relibtoolize  
> GraphicsMagick for testing.  I don't maintain many different autotools  
> installs and with 70+ builds simultaneously sharing one source tree such 
> changes become tedious and time consuming.

Here's a cheap trick: unless you have extravagant ways of configuring
libtool, you can just override LIBTOOL:

  make clean all LIBTOOL=/my/libtool-2.2.2/libtool
  make clean all LIBTOOL=/my/libtool-current/libtool

The libtool scripts often don't even have to be installed.

Cheers,
Ralf