Re: Slow compilation

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paulo Schreiner <paulo bewnet com br> writes:
> I'm having a strange problem compiling Gnome 2 beta 5. It simply crawls
> to compile!
> Well,the problem is actually on the linking, I guess. The gcc comands go
> normally, but then come some lines like ../libtool mode=link and a bunch
> of other stuff (the .o it is trying to link toogether) and it takes
> aproximately 15 minute (really) to link each binary. The resulting
> binarys work, and have no noticeable slowness themselves, but I just
> cant finish compiling gnome becouse it takes so long.
> Im on an Athlon 800, running Slack 8, and gnome 1.4 is also installed.
> Anyone has a clue?
> 

You have some sucky version of libtool, or some old .la files that are
confusing libtool.

Havoc