Re: glibc

[Matthias Urlichs]

In dist.linux.kernel, article <[e-mail]>,
  Jason Burrell <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> On a related note, does anyone have any idea why glibc takes so long to
> compile? I figure it has something to do with the amount of time spent in
> make, but I don't know how to get hard numbers on that.
> 
glibc creates rather large dependency lists. For each file. Scanning these
lists, for each object file (there are up to five object files per source
file), multiple times, takes quite some time, especialy since GNU make
doesn't cache the results from its stat() calls.

NB: Off-topic.
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Matthias Urlichs
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