Excessive startup times following libtool upgrade

Eric Schuele e.schuele at computer.org
Sat Mar 11 05:09:11 UTC 2006


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
> 
> 


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Regards,
Eric


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