Evolution crawls on FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 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).

All GNOME ports honor LDFLAGS.  We pass custom LDFLAGS via CONFIGURE_ENV 
to every port (i.e. to add -L${LOCALBASE}/lib).  This would be trivial 
to test.  As for the linker patch, I see the same slowish startup on 7.X 
and 8.X, so I do not think it will help.  That said, if you are using 
the FBSD linker in G/FBSD, and you're not seeing this problem, there 
must be something else that's keep Evo in the linker for so long.  Thus 
far, I haven't heard any default Gentoo option that may account for 
this.  Perhaps you have some other libtool patches or other custom 
patches not in any version of FBSD...?

Joe

> 
> Thanks for info,
> Alexander.
> 


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