From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 05:09:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C0316A41F; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:09:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB1743D9E; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:08:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.215] (c-24-1-232-64.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20060311050851m1200mekr1e>; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:08:52 +0000 Message-ID: <44125B63.20902@computer.org> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:08:51 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ade Lovett References: <20060310094514.GA688@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <441246A6.30402@computer.org> <5D212133-1020-4259-90B7-41AD6A98050C@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5D212133-1020-4259-90B7-41AD6A98050C@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Excessive startup times following libtool upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:09:11 -0000 Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2006, at 19:40 , Eric Schuele wrote: >> I've spoken to some of them, informally on IRC. Mentioned this >> issue... they of course asked my platform.... and responded with "Oh, >> I should've guessed". They said it was a known issue and that it was >> FreeBSD specific. Their guess was that it had to do with how shared >> objects were being opened multiple times. Sounds like a good guess >> given Peter's findings. > > Considering both libtool and libltdl are now "stock", I'm afraid you'll > have to elaborate on what is exactly meant by FreeBSD-specific. Good point. Though, I can't really elaborate on what they meant. I'll try talking to them again with Peter's post in hand and see if they have any constructive comments. FWIW - Some of the developers seem to hang out in #gnucash on irc.gnome.org. > > -aDe > > -- Regards, Eric