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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2009-06-30 17:09:57 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2009-06-30 17:09:57 +0300
commitf42ee981668b545ab6d06c6072e262c29605273c (patch)
tree3c629000a91b0b0dccf11bacdd1878cea508be73 /TODO
parentAdded a comment about "autoconf -fi" to autogen.sh. (diff)
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Build system fixes
Don't use libtool convenience libraries to avoid recently discovered long-standing subtle but somewhat severe bugs in libtool (at least 1.5.22 and 2.2.6 are affected). It was found when porting XZ Utils to Windows <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-06/msg00070.html> but the problem is significant also e.g. on GNU/Linux. Unless --disable-shared is passed to configure, static library built from a set of convenience libraries will contain PIC objects. That is, while libtool builds non-PIC objects too, only PIC objects will be used from the convenience libraries. On 32-bit x86 (tested on mobile XP2400+), using PIC instead of non-PIC makes the decompressor 10 % slower with the default CFLAGS. So while xz was linked against static liblzma by default, it got the slower PIC objects unless --disable-shared was used. I tend develop and benchmark with --disable-shared due to faster build time, so I hadn't noticed the problem in benchmarks earlier. This commit also adds support for building Windows resources into liblzma and executables.
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