what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ?

[Chris Faylor]

In article < 01BC9047.8464FD60@sos >,
Sergey Okhapkin  <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
>Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>    and if so, does this fix makeing .reloc dll's & exe's
>>    with B18?
>>
>> Doesn't that have more to do with running ld and dlltool multiple
>> times?
>
>Three-pass linking is very slow :-( For example, while building cygwin.dll 
>with full debug info, every ld pass tooks more than 1 minute on my P133/32M 
>NT4.0. The ld.exe process takes about 10M memory while running! It's 
>difficult to debug the stuff with long build times...

That's for sure.  I've been spending a fair amount of time with cygwin
stuff and the last link step on my dual P90 system is maddeningly slow.
-- 
http://www.bbc.com/	cgf@bbc.com			"Strange how unreal
VMS=>UNIX Solutions	Boston Business Computing	 the real can be."
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".