Monthly Archives: November 2009

Helping ld link libxul more quickly

I used to do most of my development in a Linux virtual machine with 1.5GB of RAM. There, –enable-libxul builds were … painful: linking libxul itself took about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Ideally, ld or gold would know how to re-link incrementally, and the problem would vanish. But until then, you can help ld [...]