[boost] Re: Fixing slow link times... the solution!

From: Dave Gomboc (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-09 22:49:47

> And to repay my gratitude I have a variation of your solution 
> which doesn't require patching GCC. Thanks to your discovery 
> of the debug strings merge problem, and to Dave G.'s mention 
> of -fwritable-strings, the problem can be fixed by turning 
> off the "readonly" flag for the debug strings section. That 
> prevents the linker from running the n^2 merge algorithm. To 
> do that one can
> run:
> 
>     objcopy --set-section-flags .debug_str=contents,debug some_file.o
> 
> On each compiled file. Normally the flags are 
> contents,readonly,debug - so the above removes the readonly 
> flag and voila, no merging of debug symbols
> :-) [I have Boost.Build changes to do this if there's interest.]

*laugh*  Sweet.  Glad to be of service. <g>  Yes, definitely update
Boost.Build!

Dave