[PATCH] LDFLAGS configuration

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:49 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:24, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 June 2006 2:27 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > > This patch adds LDFLAGS and LIBRARIES configuration options to
> > > complement the CFLAGS that already exists. Please apply.
> >
> > "Hello, I'd like to register a complaint.  Hello miss?"
> >
> > "What do you mean miss?"
> >
> > "I'm terribly sorry, I have a cold..."
> >
> > Has anybody else noticed that on a 2 ghz Pentium M (with TWO MEGABYTES of
> > L2 cache), make help sits there for a full two seconds before dumping the
> > help text?
>
> i'm guessing this has nothing to do with Shaun's post

It has to do with the fact that the slowdown I'm seeing is due to explicit 
flag querying at the beginning of the make run, which is done even when it 
isn't needed, and that breaking up the flags to be more granular is a 
mechanism to cope with increasing the complexity of the configuration we do, 
and preparation for an increase in complexity is likely to actually encourage 
such an increase in complexity, most likely resulting in proliferation of 
flag probing and even more of a slowdown.  Therefore, I'm not interested in 
increasing flag specification granularity before we implement a cacheing 
mechanism for probed flags, and that's aside from the potential increased 
mnemonic burden on developers attempting to configure their build environment 
that increased granularity brings with it.

Sorry, thought it was obvious.

> -mike

Rob
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