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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:07:39 -0800
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Excessive startup times following libtool upgrade
Message-ID:  <E5E31245-D591-4353-9777-E6528AC6DC34@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060310094514.GA688@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <20060310094514.GA688@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Mar 10, 2006, at 01:45 , Peter Jeremy wrote:

> I have rebuilt gnucash following the libtool upgrade (admittedly, I
> had to downgrade guile to avoid an slib problem).  After which gnucash
> takes 15 minutes of system time to start (it used to take about a
> minute), issuing a ridiculous number of syscalls (30K/sec).  I've done
> some poking around with ktrace and gdb and believe that the problem is
> libtool trying to load shared libraries.

This appears to be something unique to gnucash -- I've looked at some  
other libltdl-using ports, and they don't exhibit the same behavior.

Best bet is to contact the gnucash developers to see what they have  
to say.

-aDe




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