Evolution crawls on FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Roy Marles <roy at marples.name> (from Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:42:47 +0000):

> On Sunday 02 March 2008 23:12:37 Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
>> Indeed, a casual inspection of libexec/rtdl-elf/rtld.c shows that the
>> SO_NEEDED lists (Obj_Entry.needed) are walked recursively. Removing
>> the useless entries might therefore have a dramatic impact on
>> performance.
>
> One thing that may help here is allowing the use of cutsom LDFLAGS -
> namely -Wl,--as-needed. This removes SO_NEEDED references when the library
> really isn't needed. For a more indepth discussion on the benefits of this,

This sounds really interesting! We would have to check which compiler  
versions understand this flag. And it is a nin-intrusive change to the  
autotools chain. And making ports honor LDFLAGS (like they do with  
CFLAGS) is a good ideas IMO.

> read this article [1]. I had a quick look at ports, but it doesn't seem to
> honor LDFLAGS in any port. Sadly most of the world needs to be compiled with
> this LDFLAG for it to really work, so I didn't look much futher. FreeBSD base
> system compiles fine with it though :)

Oh, if the gnome maintained ports would honor LDFLAGS, it would  
already be a big deal (and probably solve the issue with evolution).

Thanks for info,
Alexander.

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