Bug#383251: g++-4.1: FTBFS for RQuantLib on i386/testing

[John Schmidt <john.schmidt@utah.edu>]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 04:34, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:34 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > Link times.  [ The 'link error in Etch' was something we first saw on
> > hppa, and later noticed as a general problem -- but which is fixed in
> > recent g++ versions. ]
> >
> > Are you aware of anything we could turn in as a self-contained example?
> > Without an example, the g++ authors will have a hard time tuning this.
>
> Dirk,
> 	apologies for the delay. I don't think I can turn in anything
> self-contained _and_ small. But if it can help narrowing the
> investigation, I'm seeing a big difference in link times depending on
> whether or not the '-g' flag is enabled. I usually configure the library
> so that it's not included on the command line, and my link times are
> more or less as they were with previous versions. Today I enabled the
> flag to do some debugging, and linking is taking forever.
>
> Later,
> 	Luigi
>

Hi,

I did some looking around on the gcc bugzilla to see if anyone else reported 
slow linking or in general problems with g++ when '-g' is used.  I found a 
GCC bug 25468 (see: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25468 )    
which "might" be related.  

I then downloaded the gcc-4.1-source and checked if the PR debug/25468 fix was 
included in the source, and it wasn't.

I am not sure if the reported behavior in the GCC bug (25468) and fix would 
have any bearing on link times, but I would be happy to try this fix out.    

Thanks,

John Schmidt