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Do you use libtool? Then you want Dolt.

Peter McCurdy, Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

I saw a brief mention of this in the Mono 2.0 release notes (PS: Mono 2.0 is out, it also looks nice), but it seems important enough to bear repeating.

Dolt is a high performance replacement/wrapper for libtool. And when they say high performance, they’re not kidding; the release announcement shows full project compile times being cut in half. I don’t know whether to be elated at the speedup, or depressed that it took so long to do something so simple-looking. Either way, if you’re using libtool in your project, you really want to get yourself some Dolt action.

One Response to “Do you use libtool? Then you want Dolt.”

  1. Pierre Phaneuf commented:

    You could also, say, not use libtool. I know, I know, you lose Fortran 77 support, but I just clench my teeth and suffer through that hardship.

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