From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990818144146 DOT 10490I-100000 AT is...
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Johan Venter wrote:
>
> > I don't want to have to take so long to compile a project while it's in
> > test stages.
>
> This is a mistake, IMHO.  If you test the program compiled with a
> different set of optimization switches than the binary you will ship/use
> in production, your entire testing might be invalid, because you tested a
> different program.  Optimizations can rearrange the code a great deal.
>
> Therefore, I suggest to use the same optimization level in testing as in
> production.  Luckily, GDB and RHIDE can debug optimized programs, so you
> don't need to compromize.

Well, Eli I don't normally develop like that. I like to develop with the
exact options I'm going to use to compile the release version, but I was
willing to compromise to cut down on compile time. I just learned from
Andris what was wrong. Collect2 has a bug which looks for ld in root
directories on dos drives if they're in the path! So, all I had to do was
get rid of c:\ in my path variable and it shaved 20 seconds off the compile
time!

THANKS ANDRIS!!!

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Johan Venter
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