Evolution crawls on FreeBSD

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:20 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:27:42 -0600, Roy Marples <roy at marples.name> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:27:08 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>> All GNOME ports honor LDFLAGS.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure evolution didn't when I tested this a few months ago.  
>> I'll retest once I get my fbsd box back up.
>
> You can't just add in /etc/make.conf. You have to edit in  
> evolution/Makefile. If you want to get make.conf works, it will need to  
> be add ${LDFLAGS} like this:
>
> ===================================
> CONFIGURE_ENV=	CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
> 		LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib ${LDFLAGS}"
> ===================================
>
> Then add in make.conf:
>
> ===================================
> LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed
> ===================================
>
> I haven't test it, but it should works.
<snip>

Tweak in LDFLAGS wasn't good enough. It doesn't change anything. marcus  
has found a way to hack in Evolution libtool to add '-Wl,--as-needed' and  
finally helps Evolution to start up a lot faster. You can see the  
difference:

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/evolution.txt

marcus has added it in bsd.gnome.mk called ltasneededhack in MC CVS. The  
evolution port in MC CVS is using it. It will be coming with GNOME 2.22.

Just add a note to maintainers, if you want to use ltasneededhack. You  
have to make sure about that you test throught in your port before you  
commit it. It has caused Evolution plugins to show up bugs and marcus has  
to add a patch in a plugin to make sure it doesn't use '-Wl,--as-needed'.

Cheers,
Mezz


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